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Page iv
... influence over a whole land . That this influence of Your MAJESTY'S virtues may long continue to be felt ; that while they alleviate the cares , and increase the comfort of our gracious Sovereign ; while they improve the minds , and ...
... influence over a whole land . That this influence of Your MAJESTY'S virtues may long continue to be felt ; that while they alleviate the cares , and increase the comfort of our gracious Sovereign ; while they improve the minds , and ...
Page ix
... influence on their own improvement , on the progress of elegance and taste among their contemporaries , and on the general interests of the community to which they belonged . On the completion of this academical course , he underwent ...
... influence on their own improvement , on the progress of elegance and taste among their contemporaries , and on the general interests of the community to which they belonged . On the completion of this academical course , he underwent ...
Page xiii
... influenced by an excusable solicitude for his reputation , he left behind him an explicit injunction that his numerous manuscripts should be destroyed . The greatness of their number was creditable to his professional character , and ex ...
... influenced by an excusable solicitude for his reputation , he left behind him an explicit injunction that his numerous manuscripts should be destroyed . The greatness of their number was creditable to his professional character , and ex ...
Page xiv
... influence among his brethren was extensive : his opinion , guided by that sound uprightness of judgment which formed the predominant feature of his intellectual character , had been always held in high respect by the friends with whom ...
... influence among his brethren was extensive : his opinion , guided by that sound uprightness of judgment which formed the predominant feature of his intellectual character , had been always held in high respect by the friends with whom ...
Page xviii
... influence " on the consolation , on the order , and on the virtue of both " public and private life . Hence his discourses , uniting in " the most perfect form the attractions of utility and beauty , gave a new and better tone to the ...
... influence " on the consolation , on the order , and on the virtue of both " public and private life . Hence his discourses , uniting in " the most perfect form the attractions of utility and beauty , gave a new and better tone to the ...
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