The Portico, Volume 1Neale Wills & Cole, 1816 |
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Page ii
... writers , or from the imperfect fragments that have devolved to us , through the convulsions of time . The name of the Portico revives , in the glowing imagination of the scholar , the most delightful recollections of classick ge- nius ...
... writers , or from the imperfect fragments that have devolved to us , through the convulsions of time . The name of the Portico revives , in the glowing imagination of the scholar , the most delightful recollections of classick ge- nius ...
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... writing itself , warrant the presumption , that it was really , as Fa- broni conjectured it , the work of Gentili , who had been the pre- ceptor of Lorenzo from whom he received his bishoprick ; and that it never was sent to the Pope ...
... writing itself , warrant the presumption , that it was really , as Fa- broni conjectured it , the work of Gentili , who had been the pre- ceptor of Lorenzo from whom he received his bishoprick ; and that it never was sent to the Pope ...
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... writer on its origin and progress that through every succeeding generation it continued to advance by slow gradation , towards the highest perfection . In proportion to its improvement and cultivation , it gave rise to numerous other ...
... writer on its origin and progress that through every succeeding generation it continued to advance by slow gradation , towards the highest perfection . In proportion to its improvement and cultivation , it gave rise to numerous other ...
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... , our atten- tion is wholly devoted to ephemeral writers of fashion and dul- ness , it may be rightly inferred , that the worms of decay have invaded our minds ; and are fast hastening the age STATE OF POLITE LEARNING . 51.
... , our atten- tion is wholly devoted to ephemeral writers of fashion and dul- ness , it may be rightly inferred , that the worms of decay have invaded our minds ; and are fast hastening the age STATE OF POLITE LEARNING . 51.
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... writers ! Thus in every light , the task I have undertaken is replete with dangers , and difficulties ; and must of necessity be attended with certain blame . If the age which has been ... writing his * 52 VIEW OF POLITE LEARNING , & c .
... writers ! Thus in every light , the task I have undertaken is replete with dangers , and difficulties ; and must of necessity be attended with certain blame . If the age which has been ... writing his * 52 VIEW OF POLITE LEARNING , & c .
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