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Indeed the power vested in that officer , refpe & ing dramatic pieces , is a
disgrace to a free country ; and the act which gave him that power ought to be
repealed . To justify the rejection of this play , Sir John Hawkins selects a few
passages ...
Indeed the power vested in that officer , refpe & ing dramatic pieces , is a
disgrace to a free country ; and the act which gave him that power ought to be
repealed . To justify the rejection of this play , Sir John Hawkins selects a few
passages ...
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... what was morally false , could not be politically true ; and as the king might , in
the exercise of his regal power , command , and cause the doing of what was
wrong , it certainly might be said , in sense and in reason , that he could do wrong
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... what was morally false , could not be politically true ; and as the king might , in
the exercise of his regal power , command , and cause the doing of what was
wrong , it certainly might be said , in sense and in reason , that he could do wrong
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tion he owed much of his varied knowledge ; and to his vigorous comprehensive
powers , he was indebted for that clearness of diftinction , that pointed judicious
discrimination , which elucidated every question , and astonished every hearer .
tion he owed much of his varied knowledge ; and to his vigorous comprehensive
powers , he was indebted for that clearness of diftinction , that pointed judicious
discrimination , which elucidated every question , and astonished every hearer .
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His Letters are valuable , as we find in them the picture , which , without intending
it , he has left of himself , to be that of a man , who , to great intellectual powers ,
added extraordinary piety , and many excellent moral qualities . Of letter writing ...
His Letters are valuable , as we find in them the picture , which , without intending
it , he has left of himself , to be that of a man , who , to great intellectual powers ,
added extraordinary piety , and many excellent moral qualities . Of letter writing ...
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The delight which they afford ; ” to use his own words , in criticising the Latin
poetry . of Milton , “ is rather by the exquisite imitation of the ancient writers , by
the purity of the diction , and the harmony of the numbers , than by any power of ...
The delight which they afford ; ” to use his own words , in criticising the Latin
poetry . of Milton , “ is rather by the exquisite imitation of the ancient writers , by
the purity of the diction , and the harmony of the numbers , than by any power of ...
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