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... learning . The god of love is mentioned in Tamerlane with all the familiarity of a Roman epigrammatist ; and a late writer has put Harvey's doctrine of the circulation of the blood into the mouth of a Turkish ftatefman , who lived near ...
... learning . The god of love is mentioned in Tamerlane with all the familiarity of a Roman epigrammatist ; and a late writer has put Harvey's doctrine of the circulation of the blood into the mouth of a Turkish ftatefman , who lived near ...
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... learning , which neither time nor envy fhall be able to destroy . BUT the authors whom I am now endea- vouring to recommend have been too long hackneyed in the ways of men to in- dulge the chimerical ambition of praise or immortality ...
... learning , which neither time nor envy fhall be able to destroy . BUT the authors whom I am now endea- vouring to recommend have been too long hackneyed in the ways of men to in- dulge the chimerical ambition of praise or immortality ...
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... learning or of reason , he foon loft his vivacity , grew peevish and filent , wrapped his cloak about him , compofed him- felf to flumber , and referved his gaiety for fitter auditors . AT length I entered London , and my un- cle was ...
... learning or of reason , he foon loft his vivacity , grew peevish and filent , wrapped his cloak about him , compofed him- felf to flumber , and referved his gaiety for fitter auditors . AT length I entered London , and my un- cle was ...
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