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... which, therefore, experience has taught my predecessors to spread with a kind
of pompous luxuriance over their productions. The academicians of France,
indeed, rejected terms of science in their first essay, but found afterwards a
necessity ...
... which, therefore, experience has taught my predecessors to spread with a kind
of pompous luxuriance over their productions. The academicians of France,
indeed, rejected terms of science in their first essay, but found afterwards a
necessity ...
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There is another kind of composition more frequent in our language than perhaps
in any other, from which arises to foreigners the greatest difficulty. We modify the
signification of many verbs by a particle subjoined ; as to come off', to escape ...
There is another kind of composition more frequent in our language than perhaps
in any other, from which arises to foreigners the greatest difficulty. We modify the
signification of many verbs by a particle subjoined ; as to come off', to escape ...
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The time in which this kind of credulity was at its height, seems to have been that
of the holy war, in which the Christians imputed all their defeats to enchantment
or diabolical opposition, as they ascribe their success to the assistance of their ...
The time in which this kind of credulity was at its height, seems to have been that
of the holy war, in which the Christians imputed all their defeats to enchantment
or diabolical opposition, as they ascribe their success to the assistance of their ...
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But though the Farmers are of such utility in a state, we find them in general too
much disregarded among the politer kind of people in the present age ; while we
cannot help observing. * From the Universal Visitor, for February 1756, p. 59.
But though the Farmers are of such utility in a state, we find them in general too
much disregarded among the politer kind of people in the present age ; while we
cannot help observing. * From the Universal Visitor, for February 1756, p. 59.
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... scarcity may be remedied, and calamities of the same kind may for the future
be prevented, is an enquiry of the first importance : an enquiry before which all
the considerations which commonly busy the legislature vanish from the view.
... scarcity may be remedied, and calamities of the same kind may for the future
be prevented, is an enquiry of the first importance : an enquiry before which all
the considerations which commonly busy the legislature vanish from the view.
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