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... mention . His book is now in our press , and almost finished , I am told . He will add an Appendix , in which he ... mentioned to him as your promise . I am , Sir , your much obliged friend , and humble servant , WILLIAM JONES . From ...
... mention . His book is now in our press , and almost finished , I am told . He will add an Appendix , in which he ... mentioned to him as your promise . I am , Sir , your much obliged friend , and humble servant , WILLIAM JONES . From ...
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... mentioned in your last , concerning my old manuscripts , ( though for my part I know nothing worth your notice publickly in them ) if you do find any , the end of my sending them is the better answered ; and you know that you may do as ...
... mentioned in your last , concerning my old manuscripts , ( though for my part I know nothing worth your notice publickly in them ) if you do find any , the end of my sending them is the better answered ; and you know that you may do as ...
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... mentioning the rapture which he felt , when he first read it . In his sixth year , by the assist- ance of a friend , he was initiated in the rudiments of the Latin grammar , and he committed some passages of it to memory ; but the dull ...
... mentioning the rapture which he felt , when he first read it . In his sixth year , by the assist- ance of a friend , he was initiated in the rudiments of the Latin grammar , and he committed some passages of it to memory ; but the dull ...
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... mention of it may have excited , I select from it the following lines : ATALANTA ( speaks . ) Still Discord raves , Bellona fiercely storms , Mars calls , and Caledonians exclaim . Althea , fraught with ire , forgets her son , And ...
... mention of it may have excited , I select from it the following lines : ATALANTA ( speaks . ) Still Discord raves , Bellona fiercely storms , Mars calls , and Caledonians exclaim . Althea , fraught with ire , forgets her son , And ...
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... mention . We should , therefore , compare our afflictions with those who are more miser- able , and not with those who are more happy . I am ashamed to add more , lest I should seem to mistrust . your prudence ; but next week , when I ...
... mention . We should , therefore , compare our afflictions with those who are more miser- able , and not with those who are more happy . I am ashamed to add more , lest I should seem to mistrust . your prudence ; but next week , when I ...
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