The Portico, Volume 1Neale Wills & Cole, 1816 |
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... judgment of the scholar . This department , however , will not be confined to original composition . Selections , from the copious stores of exo- tick genius , must often supply the scarcity of native productions --- a scarcity , not so ...
... judgment of the scholar . This department , however , will not be confined to original composition . Selections , from the copious stores of exo- tick genius , must often supply the scarcity of native productions --- a scarcity , not so ...
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... judgment of the real importance , and utility of an art , and also , of the merits of those who are engaged in its cultivation . It is also , by widely disseminating such know- ledge , and becoming familiar with it , that we are ...
... judgment of the real importance , and utility of an art , and also , of the merits of those who are engaged in its cultivation . It is also , by widely disseminating such know- ledge , and becoming familiar with it , that we are ...
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... judgment in the operation and subsequent treatment . - It was calculated to flat- ter the hopes and expectations of the young , middle aged , and even old people , who were likely to become destitute of teeth , from premature decay ...
... judgment in the operation and subsequent treatment . - It was calculated to flat- ter the hopes and expectations of the young , middle aged , and even old people , who were likely to become destitute of teeth , from premature decay ...
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... judgment of its real merits , perhaps against its own excellence ; and at the cost of its fancied superiority . Hence the peculiar difficulty of any age , of fixing to its own character , the just degree of excellence it possesses ; and ...
... judgment of its real merits , perhaps against its own excellence ; and at the cost of its fancied superiority . Hence the peculiar difficulty of any age , of fixing to its own character , the just degree of excellence it possesses ; and ...
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... judgment . Taking the known faculties of the mind , for the point of contemplation , and e standard of excellence , we may discern with facility , the extent to which we can carry our conquests , and the fields which nature has denied ...
... judgment . Taking the known faculties of the mind , for the point of contemplation , and e standard of excellence , we may discern with facility , the extent to which we can carry our conquests , and the fields which nature has denied ...
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