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Page ii
... fome ten- dency to improve their style . If in this he Should be allowed to have at all fucceeded , * the work , it is prefumed , will not be un- Serviceable to young readers , nor wholly unentertaining to perfons of maturer judg- ment ...
... fome ten- dency to improve their style . If in this he Should be allowed to have at all fucceeded , * the work , it is prefumed , will not be un- Serviceable to young readers , nor wholly unentertaining to perfons of maturer judg- ment ...
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... fome atonement for his own defects . The life of Elop prefixed to the former editions of thefe Fables , having been thought not fo full and fatisfactory as it might have been , a learned and ingenious friend has been fo kind as to ...
... fome atonement for his own defects . The life of Elop prefixed to the former editions of thefe Fables , having been thought not fo full and fatisfactory as it might have been , a learned and ingenious friend has been fo kind as to ...
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... fome reason to imagine they were a remark- ably handsome couple : for as fhe is faid to have had her name from the beauty of her complexion ( godov & WITIS ) , he feems to me to have had his from the particular spark- ling of his eyes ...
... fome reason to imagine they were a remark- ably handsome couple : for as fhe is faid to have had her name from the beauty of her complexion ( godov & WITIS ) , he feems to me to have had his from the particular spark- ling of his eyes ...
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... fome time in his fervice , he gave him " his liberty . Efop , after having obtained his freedom , gradually acquired fo great a reputation , that at length he was confidered as equal to the most celebrated " of the feven fages of Greece ...
... fome time in his fervice , he gave him " his liberty . Efop , after having obtained his freedom , gradually acquired fo great a reputation , that at length he was confidered as equal to the most celebrated " of the feven fages of Greece ...
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... fome another : Solon ( whom I think without injury we may look upon as fuperior to all the reft ) in his anfwer gave two inftances . The firft was that of Tellus , a poor Athenian , but of great virtues ; who had eminently diftin ...
... fome another : Solon ( whom I think without injury we may look upon as fuperior to all the reft ) in his anfwer gave two inftances . The firft was that of Tellus , a poor Athenian , but of great virtues ; who had eminently diftin ...
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Page 65 - These briars indeed, said he, will tear my skin a little, yet they keep off the dogs. For the sake of the good, then, let me bear the evil with patience : each bitter has its sweet, and these brambles, though they wound my flesh, preserve my life from danger.
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