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... knowledge ; for which purpose he sedulously attended the various courses of lectures then delivered in the University , and profited by the in- struction of several eminent teachers in va- rious branches of knowledge . We have no ...
... knowledge ; for which purpose he sedulously attended the various courses of lectures then delivered in the University , and profited by the in- struction of several eminent teachers in va- rious branches of knowledge . We have no ...
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... knowledge in the various departments of science and literature , with- out any determinate prospects as to their ulti- mate application to personal objects of profit or establishment in life . But it will appear in the sequel , that he ...
... knowledge in the various departments of science and literature , with- out any determinate prospects as to their ulti- mate application to personal objects of profit or establishment in life . But it will appear in the sequel , that he ...
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... knowledge which he had acquired in the course of his studies , to aspire beyond the limited sphere in which the mechanical profession , so to speak , which he had been bred to seemed to have doomed his future days to mere laborious ...
... knowledge which he had acquired in the course of his studies , to aspire beyond the limited sphere in which the mechanical profession , so to speak , which he had been bred to seemed to have doomed his future days to mere laborious ...
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... knowledge of these particulars contribute greatly to the under- standing of his work . " This is a piece of very fine satire . Men are too often measur- VOL . I. Ꭰ ed by their opinions , and , on the contrary WILLIAM SMELLIE . 49.
... knowledge of these particulars contribute greatly to the under- standing of his work . " This is a piece of very fine satire . Men are too often measur- VOL . I. Ꭰ ed by their opinions , and , on the contrary WILLIAM SMELLIE . 49.
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... knowledge . Who told you this ? This is what is said by the orthodox party , or the moderate party ! Let us throw away those distinctions , weighing opinions only , and endeavouring to suck honey from every flower , without seeming to ...
... knowledge . Who told you this ? This is what is said by the orthodox party , or the moderate party ! Let us throw away those distinctions , weighing opinions only , and endeavouring to suck honey from every flower , without seeming to ...
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Página 339 - Parliament, was a feeling of some decline in his health, which had rather suffered from the long sittings and late hours with which the political warfare in the last had been attended. Though without any fixed disease, his strength was visibly declining; and though his spirits survived his strength, yet the vigour and activity of his mind were also considerably impaired. Both continued gradually to decline, till his death, which happened on Saturday the 9th July 1785, in the 71st year of his age.