Select Fables; with Cuts, Designed and Engraved by Thomas and John Bewick, and Others, Previous to the Year 1784:: Together with a Memoir; and a Descriptive Catalogue of the Works of Messrs. Bewick |
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... reason to be proud of her sons , every walk of life . To promote the fine arts , as Lord Kaimes justly observed , has become of greater import- ance than is generally imagined . It unquestionably affords the vi MEMOIR .
... reason to be proud of her sons , every walk of life . To promote the fine arts , as Lord Kaimes justly observed , has become of greater import- ance than is generally imagined . It unquestionably affords the vi MEMOIR .
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... reason not contemptibly : with these Find pastime . Paradise Lost , b . 8. 1. 370 . Newcastle : printed by and for T. Saint , 1784. 12mo . The first edition of this work was published in the year 1776 , with a very indifferent set of ...
... reason not contemptibly : with these Find pastime . Paradise Lost , b . 8. 1. 370 . Newcastle : printed by and for T. Saint , 1784. 12mo . The first edition of this work was published in the year 1776 , with a very indifferent set of ...
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... of Providence before the dazzling and the splendid curiosities of mode and imagination : and finally , that we are not to govern our lives by fancy , but by reason . THE FOX AND THE CROW . A CROW , having. 2 SELECT FABLES .
... of Providence before the dazzling and the splendid curiosities of mode and imagination : and finally , that we are not to govern our lives by fancy , but by reason . THE FOX AND THE CROW . A CROW , having. 2 SELECT FABLES .
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... reason to despair of doing you any service in the way you propose : for , with what face can I ask any thing of God in favour of one , whose whole life has been a continued scene of rapine and injustice , and who has not scrupled , upon ...
... reason to despair of doing you any service in the way you propose : for , with what face can I ask any thing of God in favour of one , whose whole life has been a continued scene of rapine and injustice , and who has not scrupled , upon ...
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... reason but because he fears he shall not be able to offend him any longer ; when , in truth , such a repentance can signify nothing , but a confirma- tion of his former impudence and folly ? For sure no stupidity can exceed that of the ...
... reason but because he fears he shall not be able to offend him any longer ; when , in truth , such a repentance can signify nothing , but a confirma- tion of his former impudence and folly ? For sure no stupidity can exceed that of the ...
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