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Page 71
The Lord gave him an excellent faculty in making abstruse things plain , that in handling the deepest Mysteries he would accommodate himself to Vulgar Capacities , that even the meanest might learn something .
The Lord gave him an excellent faculty in making abstruse things plain , that in handling the deepest Mysteries he would accommodate himself to Vulgar Capacities , that even the meanest might learn something .
Page 149
Behold how tears flow from the learned hill , How the bereaved Nine do daily fill The bosom of the fleeting Air with groans , And woeful Accents , which witness their moans . How do the Goddesses of verse , the learned choir Lament ...
Behold how tears flow from the learned hill , How the bereaved Nine do daily fill The bosom of the fleeting Air with groans , And woeful Accents , which witness their moans . How do the Goddesses of verse , the learned choir Lament ...
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I do not know that more learning and talents existed at that early day in the states of New England than in Virginia ... This country possesses neither the population nor the endowments to maintain a large class of learned idlers , in ...
I do not know that more learning and talents existed at that early day in the states of New England than in Virginia ... This country possesses neither the population nor the endowments to maintain a large class of learned idlers , in ...
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| Title | Colonial and Federalist American Writing The Odyssey surveys of American writing |
| Author | George F. Horner |
| Publisher | Odyssey Press, 1966 |
| Length | 946 pages |
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