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Page xiv
... natural history . Thence he went to Leyden , still pretending to study physic . He left that cele- brated university , the third university at which he had resided , in his twenty - seventh year , without a degree , with the merest ...
... natural history . Thence he went to Leyden , still pretending to study physic . He left that cele- brated university , the third university at which he had resided , in his twenty - seventh year , without a degree , with the merest ...
Page xvii
... nature or by education . He knew nothing accurately ; his reading had been desultory ; nor had he meditated deeply on what he had read . He had seen much of the world ; but he had noticed and retained little more of what he had seen ...
... nature or by education . He knew nothing accurately ; his reading had been desultory ; nor had he meditated deeply on what he had read . He had seen much of the world ; but he had noticed and retained little more of what he had seen ...
Page xviii
... natural grace and decorum , hardly to be expected from a man a great part of whose life had been passed among thieves and beggars , street - walkers and merry - andrews , in those squalid dens which are the reproach of great capitals ...
... natural grace and decorum , hardly to be expected from a man a great part of whose life had been passed among thieves and beggars , street - walkers and merry - andrews , in those squalid dens which are the reproach of great capitals ...
Page xxiii
... natural and moral philosophy . A poet may easily be pardoned for reasoning ill ; but he can- not be pardoned for describing ill , for observing the world in which he lives so carelessly , that his portraits bear no resemblance to the ...
... natural and moral philosophy . A poet may easily be pardoned for reasoning ill ; but he can- not be pardoned for describing ill , for observing the world in which he lives so carelessly , that his portraits bear no resemblance to the ...
Page xxv
... Natural History , for which the booksellers cove- nanted to pay him 800 guineas . These works he produced without ... Nature , he relates , with faith and with perfect gravity , all the most absurd lies which he could find in books of ...
... Natural History , for which the booksellers cove- nanted to pay him 800 guineas . These works he produced without ... Nature , he relates , with faith and with perfect gravity , all the most absurd lies which he could find in books of ...
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