The Observer: Being a Collection of Moral, Literary and Familiar Essays, Volume 4C. Dilly, 1788 - Conduct of life |
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... supposed to have been saved out of the famous Alexandrian library , when set on fire by command of the Caliph . There is nothing but conjecture to guide us to the author : Some learned men , who have examined it , give it to Paufanias ...
... supposed to have been saved out of the famous Alexandrian library , when set on fire by command of the Caliph . There is nothing but conjecture to guide us to the author : Some learned men , who have examined it , give it to Paufanias ...
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... supposed to have seen none other of the human species but her father , befides certain imaginary beings , whom Prometheus had either created by his stolen stolen fire , or whom he employed in the capacity 60 THE OBSERVER . N ° 99 .
... supposed to have seen none other of the human species but her father , befides certain imaginary beings , whom Prometheus had either created by his stolen stolen fire , or whom he employed in the capacity 60 THE OBSERVER . N ° 99 .
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... supposed that Terence copied his comedy of that name from Menander , but unless his commentators have given fome better reason , than I have yet met with , for the fact , it will bear a doubt at least whether that elegant copy may not ...
... supposed that Terence copied his comedy of that name from Menander , but unless his commentators have given fome better reason , than I have yet met with , for the fact , it will bear a doubt at least whether that elegant copy may not ...
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... supposed that the fame man , who lampooned Plato , would spare Pytha- goras ; and that he did treat Plato in this con- temptuous strain we have the word of Laertius , who refers to no less than four of his comedies , in which he ...
... supposed that the fame man , who lampooned Plato , would spare Pytha- goras ; and that he did treat Plato in this con- temptuous strain we have the word of Laertius , who refers to no less than four of his comedies , in which he ...
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... supposed by some to point at Mævius , by others at Hipponax ; but as the name of the sufferer is not given , those , who incline to the construction of Euftathius as well as Zarottus , will apply it to our author . Of the titles of his ...
... supposed by some to point at Mævius , by others at Hipponax ; but as the name of the sufferer is not given , those , who incline to the construction of Euftathius as well as Zarottus , will apply it to our author . Of the titles of his ...
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