A Selection of Curious Articles from the Gentleman's Magazine, Volume 4John Walker Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1811 |
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... genius of young Cave ; and was so well pleased with his quick progress in the school , that he declared his resolution to breed him for the University , and recommended him as a servitor to some of his scholars of high rank . But ...
... genius of young Cave ; and was so well pleased with his quick progress in the school , that he declared his resolution to breed him for the University , and recommended him as a servitor to some of his scholars of high rank . But ...
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... genius , and never failed to obviate what- ever difficulty obstructed his progress . Hitherto he had been supported by his father ; but his friends were now determined , if possible , to put him in some way of main- taining himself . In ...
... genius , and never failed to obviate what- ever difficulty obstructed his progress . Hitherto he had been supported by his father ; but his friends were now determined , if possible , to put him in some way of main- taining himself . In ...
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... genius along with him . The one wrote with great care and circumspection , as having many adversaries to contend with ; the other with greater ease and freedom , as rising superior to all opposition . - Indeed , the son had much the ...
... genius along with him . The one wrote with great care and circumspection , as having many adversaries to contend with ; the other with greater ease and freedom , as rising superior to all opposition . - Indeed , the son had much the ...
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... genius , with unwearied pains and industry , and some years spent in actual surveys , he investigated and published an account of those stu- pendous works of the remotest antiquity , Stonehenge and Abury , in 1743 , and hath given the ...
... genius , with unwearied pains and industry , and some years spent in actual surveys , he investigated and published an account of those stu- pendous works of the remotest antiquity , Stonehenge and Abury , in 1743 , and hath given the ...
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... and it may be reckoned an æra fruitful of great geniuses . * [ We refer those who wish to see the Pedigree to the Gent . Magazine , Vol . XLIL p . 520. E. ) " It is probable this family had its name from C 2 Sir Isaac Newton . 19.
... and it may be reckoned an æra fruitful of great geniuses . * [ We refer those who wish to see the Pedigree to the Gent . Magazine , Vol . XLIL p . 520. E. ) " It is probable this family had its name from C 2 Sir Isaac Newton . 19.
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