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... spirits may prompt or his taste may direct . If my com- position , therefore , be convicted of any of these enumerated crimes it must necessarily be condemned : -if it be found innocent , it must be acquitted ; and the greater number of ...
... spirits may prompt or his taste may direct . If my com- position , therefore , be convicted of any of these enumerated crimes it must necessarily be condemned : -if it be found innocent , it must be acquitted ; and the greater number of ...
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... spirit , as he pronounces their merited condemnation let him be told that they were written by a father who , with a daughter , the delight and , alas ! perhaps too much , the pride of his heart , has lost the great endearment of exist ...
... spirit , as he pronounces their merited condemnation let him be told that they were written by a father who , with a daughter , the delight and , alas ! perhaps too much , the pride of his heart , has lost the great endearment of exist ...
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... spirit , have struggled to retain its honourable appel- lation , -I glory as I profess myself to be a WHIG , to be of the school of SOMERS and of Locke , to arrange myself in the same political class with those enlightened and virtuous ...
... spirit , have struggled to retain its honourable appel- lation , -I glory as I profess myself to be a WHIG , to be of the school of SOMERS and of Locke , to arrange myself in the same political class with those enlightened and virtuous ...
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... spirit of devotion which actuated his bosom to his latest moment upon earth : and we need not extend our search beyond the limits of his own house for the foun- tain from which the living influence was derived . Great must have been ...
... spirit of devotion which actuated his bosom to his latest moment upon earth : and we need not extend our search beyond the limits of his own house for the foun- tain from which the living influence was derived . Great must have been ...
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... spirit proceeded , it seems in its action on our author's mind to have increased the power as well as to have given the direction ; to have invigorated the strong , enlarged the capacious , and elevated the lofty . We are unquestionably ...
... spirit proceeded , it seems in its action on our author's mind to have increased the power as well as to have given the direction ; to have invigorated the strong , enlarged the capacious , and elevated the lofty . We are unquestionably ...
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