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This history seems to be a compilation . At the end of most of the chapters , it is said , that they were written by this or that person , who had been in Virginia , and comparatively a small portion of the work seems to have been ...
This history seems to be a compilation . At the end of most of the chapters , it is said , that they were written by this or that person , who had been in Virginia , and comparatively a small portion of the work seems to have been ...
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Italian literature seems not to have attracted the attention it deserves . The passion for French , which many causes have concurred in exciting and keeping alive , seems to have excluded Italian from the catalogue of acquirements ...
Italian literature seems not to have attracted the attention it deserves . The passion for French , which many causes have concurred in exciting and keeping alive , seems to have excluded Italian from the catalogue of acquirements ...
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He seems to take a pleasure in exalting mathematics above the poor mutable fabricks of morals and physicks . The truth of mathematical science is divine , ' shedding the same " increate " and irrefrangible light on the minds of demons ...
He seems to take a pleasure in exalting mathematics above the poor mutable fabricks of morals and physicks . The truth of mathematical science is divine , ' shedding the same " increate " and irrefrangible light on the minds of demons ...
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in Rhyme | 68 |
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