Works, Volume 11W. Durell, 1811 |
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... favour ; a term used in that university to denote want of merit . Of this disgrace it may be easily supposed that he was much ashamed , and shame had its proper effect in producing reformation . He resolved from that time to study eight ...
... favour ; a term used in that university to denote want of merit . Of this disgrace it may be easily supposed that he was much ashamed , and shame had its proper effect in producing reformation . He resolved from that time to study eight ...
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... favour as enraged Dennis , " who , " he says , " found himself attacked , without any manner of pro- vocation on his side , and attacked in his person , instead of his writings , by one who was wholly a stranger to him , at a time when ...
... favour as enraged Dennis , " who , " he says , " found himself attacked , without any manner of pro- vocation on his side , and attacked in his person , instead of his writings , by one who was wholly a stranger to him , at a time when ...
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... favour of a young gentleman of inferior condition . Having discovered the correspondence between the two lovers , and finding the young lady determined to abide by her own choice , he supposed that separation might do what can rarely be ...
... favour of a young gentleman of inferior condition . Having discovered the correspondence between the two lovers , and finding the young lady determined to abide by her own choice , he supposed that separation might do what can rarely be ...
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... favour of the public extended , by soliciting a subscription to a ver- sion of the Iliad , with large notes . To print by subscription was , for some time , a prac- tice peculiar to the English . The first considerable work for which ...
... favour of the public extended , by soliciting a subscription to a ver- sion of the Iliad , with large notes . To print by subscription was , for some time , a prac- tice peculiar to the English . The first considerable work for which ...
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... favoured . The greatness of the design , the popularity of the author , and the attention of the literary world , naturally raised such expectations of the future sale , that the booksellers made their offers with great eagerness ; but ...
... favoured . The greatness of the design , the popularity of the author , and the attention of the literary world , naturally raised such expectations of the future sale , that the booksellers made their offers with great eagerness ; but ...
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