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... fupport them by authorities , I have fuffered to stand upon my own atteftation , claiming the fame privilege with my predeceffors , of being fometimes credited without proof . The words , thus felected and difpofed , are gram- matically ...
... fupport them by authorities , I have fuffered to stand upon my own atteftation , claiming the fame privilege with my predeceffors , of being fometimes credited without proof . The words , thus felected and difpofed , are gram- matically ...
Page 116
... fupport me in this melancholy feafon . NOTE XLIII . SCENE IV . Malcolm . ' Tis his main hope : For where there is advantage to be given , Both more or lefs have given him the revolt ; And none ferve with him but constrained things ...
... fupport me in this melancholy feafon . NOTE XLIII . SCENE IV . Malcolm . ' Tis his main hope : For where there is advantage to be given , Both more or lefs have given him the revolt ; And none ferve with him but constrained things ...
Page 135
... fupport no opinion with argu- ments , nor supply any faction with invectives ; they can neither indulge vanity , nor gratify malignity ; but are read without any other reason than the defire of pleasure , and are therefore praised only ...
... fupport no opinion with argu- ments , nor supply any faction with invectives ; they can neither indulge vanity , nor gratify malignity ; but are read without any other reason than the defire of pleasure , and are therefore praised only ...
Page 176
... fupport those who folicict favour , against those who command reverence ; and fo eafily is he praised , whom no man can envy . Our author fell then into the hands of Sir Thomas Hanmer , the Oxford editor , a man , in my opinion ...
... fupport those who folicict favour , against those who command reverence ; and fo eafily is he praised , whom no man can envy . Our author fell then into the hands of Sir Thomas Hanmer , the Oxford editor , a man , in my opinion ...
Page 254
... Answer to it . The importance of the fubject , the reputation and abilities of the controvertifts , and perhaps the ar- dour with which each has endeavoured to fupport his caufe , have made an attempt of this kind his [ 254 ]
... Answer to it . The importance of the fubject , the reputation and abilities of the controvertifts , and perhaps the ar- dour with which each has endeavoured to fupport his caufe , have made an attempt of this kind his [ 254 ]
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