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... learned education . He was a profound and elegant classical scholar : he had studied all the mysteries of Rabbinical literature : he was intimately ac quainted with every language of modern Eu- rope , from which either pleasure or ...
... learned education . He was a profound and elegant classical scholar : he had studied all the mysteries of Rabbinical literature : he was intimately ac quainted with every language of modern Eu- rope , from which either pleasure or ...
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... learned all his fraudulent policy from that ex- ecrable volume . Another remarks , that since it was translated into Turkish , the Sultans have been more addicted than formerly to the custom of strangling their brothers . Our own ...
... learned all his fraudulent policy from that ex- ecrable volume . Another remarks , that since it was translated into Turkish , the Sultans have been more addicted than formerly to the custom of strangling their brothers . Our own ...
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... learned education . The progress of elegant literature and of the fine arts was proportioned to that of the public prosperity . Under the despotic successors of Augustus , all the fields or the intellect had been turned into arid wastes ...
... learned education . The progress of elegant literature and of the fine arts was proportioned to that of the public prosperity . Under the despotic successors of Augustus , all the fields or the intellect had been turned into arid wastes ...
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... learned profession ; and the dignity with which he wears the doctoral fur renders his absurdities infinitely more grotesque . The delicate touches ; no hues imperceptibly fad- ing into each other ; the whole is lighted up with an ...
... learned profession ; and the dignity with which he wears the doctoral fur renders his absurdities infinitely more grotesque . The delicate touches ; no hues imperceptibly fad- ing into each other ; the whole is lighted up with an ...
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... learned pig or the musical infant . Specious but shallow , studious of effect , indifferent to truth , eager to build a system , but careless of collecting those materials out of which alone a sound and durable system can be built , he ...
... learned pig or the musical infant . Specious but shallow , studious of effect , indifferent to truth , eager to build a system , but careless of collecting those materials out of which alone a sound and durable system can be built , he ...
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