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... learned education . ever triumphed over greater difficulties than Milton . 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 ...
... learned education . ever triumphed over greater difficulties than Milton . 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 ...
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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 profession ; and the dignity with which he wears the doctoral fur renders his absurdities infinitely more grotesque . The liant wit an infantine air , generally delightful , but to a foreign reader sometimes a little ludi- crous ...
... learned profession ; and the dignity with which he wears the doctoral fur renders his absurdities infinitely more grotesque . The liant wit an infantine air , generally delightful , but to a foreign reader sometimes a little ludi- crous ...
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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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... learned , miscon strued by the ignorant , censured by the church , abused , with all the rancour of simu lated virtue , by the minions of a base despot- ism , and the priests of a baser superstition . The name of the man whose genius ...
... learned , miscon strued by the ignorant , censured by the church , abused , with all the rancour of simu lated virtue , by the minions of a base despot- ism , and the priests of a baser superstition . The name of the man whose genius ...
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