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... leave the Paint- ing , to my eyes , as if I beheld it through a veil or a mist . As your de- fect , then , Sir Joshua , does not pro- ceed from want of judgment , but from an imperfection in your colours , I hope you will not think it ...
... leave the Paint- ing , to my eyes , as if I beheld it through a veil or a mist . As your de- fect , then , Sir Joshua , does not pro- ceed from want of judgment , but from an imperfection in your colours , I hope you will not think it ...
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... leave . SIR , I are T is a received maxim that the French are the moft polite people in the world . This opinion feems to arife from their language and fashions being fo very prevalent throughout Eu- rope . It is , indeed , doing them ...
... leave . SIR , I are T is a received maxim that the French are the moft polite people in the world . This opinion feems to arife from their language and fashions being fo very prevalent throughout Eu- rope . It is , indeed , doing them ...
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... leave this digreffion , from the hif- tory of the dynasty of Man . Olave , king of the ifles , after a long and peace- able reign , was treacherously flain by his own nephews : he was fucceeded by his fon , Godred , whom he had by the ...
... leave this digreffion , from the hif- tory of the dynasty of Man . Olave , king of the ifles , after a long and peace- able reign , was treacherously flain by his own nephews : he was fucceeded by his fon , Godred , whom he had by the ...
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... leave the world , and turn Carthufian , which is the most rigorous of all the religious orders . Formed for a fevere and abftemious life , he was here feen to fet lessons of piety to the whole Convent , and to fhew that he deferved the ...
... leave the world , and turn Carthufian , which is the most rigorous of all the religious orders . Formed for a fevere and abftemious life , he was here feen to fet lessons of piety to the whole Convent , and to fhew that he deferved the ...
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... leave the bufy buftling A Sense of. PERTH MAGAZINE . UESTION by a Scholar . ars from the bills of morta- at the number of births are ber of deaths , as II to 10 , d farther , that about 1 in 20 , of the whole number of inhabitants die ...
... leave the bufy buftling A Sense of. PERTH MAGAZINE . UESTION by a Scholar . ars from the bills of morta- at the number of births are ber of deaths , as II to 10 , d farther , that about 1 in 20 , of the whole number of inhabitants die ...
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