The Athenaeum: A Magazine of Literary and Miscellaneous Information ..., Volume 3John Aikin Longmans, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1808 - Literature, Modern |
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Page 481
... mind , of a pure , correct , and classical taste . But so far were these elegant pursuits from giving him a distaste to the graver , and more solid and useful branches of education , that they seemed rather to refresh and invigorate his ...
... mind , of a pure , correct , and classical taste . But so far were these elegant pursuits from giving him a distaste to the graver , and more solid and useful branches of education , that they seemed rather to refresh and invigorate his ...
Page 484
... mind was of no common character . His intellectual powers were of the first order . His faculties were masculine and vigorous : his understanding was comprehensive , clear , and enlightened : his imagination vivid and powerful : his ...
... mind was of no common character . His intellectual powers were of the first order . His faculties were masculine and vigorous : his understanding was comprehensive , clear , and enlightened : his imagination vivid and powerful : his ...
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... mind , its . success , has been suddenly removed from us . The public has little or no opportunity of estimating the merits of my friend Mr. Jones . The elegance of his taste in mathematics and philosophical pursuits is known only to ...
... mind , its . success , has been suddenly removed from us . The public has little or no opportunity of estimating the merits of my friend Mr. Jones . The elegance of his taste in mathematics and philosophical pursuits is known only to ...
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Education Account of the Gulph and Territory of Cataro | 10 |
concluded Synonymic Elucidations continued Remark | 34 |
Writers Observations on and Selections from the Greek | 45 |
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