Works: With an Essay on His Life and Genius, Band 12Thomas Tegg and others, 1824 |
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... languages , an attainment in itself al- most incredible , but understood , says his father , the holy writers , better in their original tongues than in his own . If he means by this assertion , that he knew the sense of many passages ...
... languages , an attainment in itself al- most incredible , but understood , says his father , the holy writers , better in their original tongues than in his own . If he means by this assertion , that he knew the sense of many passages ...
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... language ; or we must own , that the fondness of a parent has transported him into some natural exaggerations . Part of this letter I am tempted to suppress , being unwilling to demand the belief of others to that which appears ...
... language ; or we must own , that the fondness of a parent has transported him into some natural exaggerations . Part of this letter I am tempted to suppress , being unwilling to demand the belief of others to that which appears ...
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... language ; so that the fact is not to be doubted without a degree of incredulity , which it will not be very easy to defend . This copy was however far from being written with the neatness which his father desired ; nor did the ...
... language ; so that the fact is not to be doubted without a degree of incredulity , which it will not be very easy to defend . This copy was however far from being written with the neatness which his father desired ; nor did the ...
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... languages , a knowledge which some men spend their lives in cultivating , to the neg- lect of more valuable studies , and which they seem to regard as the highest perfection of human nature . What applauses are due to an old age ...
... languages , a knowledge which some men spend their lives in cultivating , to the neg- lect of more valuable studies , and which they seem to regard as the highest perfection of human nature . What applauses are due to an old age ...
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... language is neces- sary , and a minute accuracy sometimes requisite , they are by no means to be blamed , who , in com- pliance with the particular bent of their own minds , make the difficulties of dead languages their chief study ...
... language is neces- sary , and a minute accuracy sometimes requisite , they are by no means to be blamed , who , in com- pliance with the particular bent of their own minds , make the difficulties of dead languages their chief study ...
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