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" Lastly, I should not choose this manner of writing, wherein knowing myself inferior to myself, led by the genial power of nature to another task, I have the use, as I may account, but of my left hand. "
Essays Biographical, Critical, and Historical, Illustrative of the Tatler ... - Page 33
by Nathan Drake - 1805 - 472 pages
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Explanatory Notes and Remarks on Milton's Paradise Lost

Jonathan Richardson - 1734 - 756 pages
...much. Laftly, Ijhoula not cbufe this manner of Writing, wherein knowing my jelf Inferior to my Self, led by the Genial Power of Nature to Another Task, I have the itfe, as I may account it, but of my Left hand. I will fubjoyn two Other Paflages,. Much Shorter than...
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Essays, Biographical, Critical, and Historical, Illustrative of ..., Volume 3

Nathan Drake - 1805 - 376 pages
...of my private studies (although I complain not of any insufficiency to the matter in hand) or were I ready to my wishes, it were a folly to commit any...probably well calculated to promote his views. In exVOL. II. D tenuation of this zeal, he has, in his Treatise of Reformation, thus solemnly appealed to heaven...
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Specimens of English Prose Writers: From the Earliest Times to the Close of ...

George Burnett - 1807 - 548 pages
...speeding, that if solidity have leisure to do her office, art cannot have much. Lastly, I should not choose this manner of writing, wherein knowing myself inferior...to another task, I have the use, as I may account it, but of my left hand ; and I shall be foolish in saying more to this purpose ; yet since it will...
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Specimens of English prose-writers, from the earliest times to the ..., Volume 3

George Burnett - 1807 - 556 pages
...speeding, that if solidity have leisure to do her office, art cannot have much. Lastly, I should not choose this manner of writing, wherein knowing myself inferior...to another task, I have the use, as I may account it, but «f my left hand ; and I shall be foolish in saying more to this purpose ; yet since it will...
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Specimens of English Prose Writers: From the Earliest Times to the ..., Volume 3

George Burnett - 1807 - 1152 pages
...speeding, that if solidity have leisure to do her office, art cannot have much. Lastly, I should not choose this manner of writing, wherein knowing myself inferior...led by the genial power of nature to another task, I Lave the use, as I may account it, but of my left hand ; and I shall be foolish in saying more to this...
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Prose Works ...: Containing His Principal Political and ..., Volume 1

John Milton - 1809 - 534 pages
...speeding, that if solidity have leisure to do her office, art cannot have much. Lastly, I should not choose this manner of writing, wherein knowing myself inferior...have the use, as I may account, but of my left hand. And though I shall be foolish in saying more to this purpose, yet, since it will be such a folly, as...
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The life of Milton, and Conjectures on the Origin of Paradise Lost, by ...

William Hayley - 1810 - 472 pages
...the careless and interrupted listening of these tumultous times. Next, if I were wise only to mine own ends, I would certainly take such a subject, as...the use, as I may account, but of my left hand.'' Prose Works, vol. 1. page 62. Such is the. delineation that our author has given us of his own mind...
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The British Plutarch: Containing the Lives of the Most Eminent ..., Volume 3

Francis Wrangham - 1816 - 524 pages
...speeding, that if solidity have leisure to do her office, art cannot have much. Lastly, I should not choose this manner of writing, wherein knowing myself inferior...to another task, I have the use (as I may account it) but of my left hand ; and I shall be foolish in saying more to this purpose : yet since it will...
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Areopagitica: A Speech to the Parliament of England, for the Liberty of ...

John Milton - 1819 - 464 pages
...nitatem cujusque rei praestolabar." — Pr. W, II. 330. edit. 1738, ceeds, " Lastly, I should not choose this " manner of writing wherein knowing myself "...another task*, I have the " use, as I may account it, but of my left " hand. And though I shall be foolish in " saying more to this purpose, yet since...
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Examples of English Prose: From the Reign of Elizabeth to the Present Time ...

George Walker - 1825 - 668 pages
...speeding, that if solidity have leisure to do her office, art cannot have much. Lastly, I should not choose this manner of writing, wherein knowing myself inferior to myself, led by the genial pewer of nature to another task, I have the use, as I may account it, but of my left hand. And though...
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