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... merit , not intrinsically its own . On the 23d of May , 1805 , before he had completed his twenty - second year , he was torn from my affection and my hopes , experiencing from his God , the recompense of a pure life , in the blessing ...
... merit , not intrinsically its own . On the 23d of May , 1805 , before he had completed his twenty - second year , he was torn from my affection and my hopes , experiencing from his God , the recompense of a pure life , in the blessing ...
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... merit . By one my prose composition has been censured , and by an- other my verse . This critic discovers that my translations are superfluous , and that pro- i nounces my numbers to be defective ; while a third PREFACE . 9 pages I am ...
... merit . By one my prose composition has been censured , and by an- other my verse . This critic discovers that my translations are superfluous , and that pro- i nounces my numbers to be defective ; while a third PREFACE . 9 pages I am ...
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... merits , if not on the destinies of authors . The pen on these occasions is frequently , as I know , in the hand of ability and learning : but it is also , as I am likewise certain , not infre- quently in that of imbecillity and ...
... merits , if not on the destinies of authors . The pen on these occasions is frequently , as I know , in the hand of ability and learning : but it is also , as I am likewise certain , not infre- quently in that of imbecillity and ...
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... merits as a writer , I have not persuaded myself to omit : and if it be a crime in me , with the fullest sense of the great powers of his mind , to regard him as a corrupter of our style , to affirm that I dis- like the fatiguing and ...
... merits as a writer , I have not persuaded myself to omit : and if it be a crime in me , with the fullest sense of the great powers of his mind , to regard him as a corrupter of our style , to affirm that I dis- like the fatiguing and ...
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... merit of the latter should be determined by the general suffrage to be inconsiderable , I shall be happy , whenever another edition of my work may indulge me with the opportu- nity , 20 PREFACE . it right to speak in such a manner as ...
... merit of the latter should be determined by the general suffrage to be inconsiderable , I shall be happy , whenever another edition of my work may indulge me with the opportu- nity , 20 PREFACE . it right to speak in such a manner as ...
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