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Calendrical Calculations
by Nachum Dershowitz, Edward M. Reingold - 2008 - 479 pages
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The Scots Magazine, Volume 17

English literature - 1755 - 694 pages
...confefä that I nattered myfelf for and to Boyle. When I am animated by this wifh, I look with pleafure on my book, however defective, and deliver it to the world with the fpirit of a man that has endeavoured well. That it will immediately become popular, I have not promifed...
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Miscellaneous and Fugitive Pieces, Volume 2

Samuel Johnson - English literature - 1774 - 412 pages
...to Bacon, to Hooker, to Milton and to Boyle. When I am animated by this Wifli I look with Pleafure on my Book, however defective, and deliver it to the World with the Spirit of a Man that has endeavoured well. That it will immediately become come popular, I have not promifed to myfeJf ; A •few...
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Miscellaneous and Fugitive Pieces, Volume 2

Samuel Johnson - English literature - 1774 - 374 pages
...to Bacon, to Hooker, to Mil" tan and to Boyle. When I am animated by this Wifh I look with Pleafure on my Book, however defective, and deliver it to the World with the Spirit of a Man that haiendeavoured well. That it will immediately become come popular, I have not promifed to myfclf :...
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Miscellaneous and Fugitive Pieces, Volume 2

Samuel Johnson - English literature - 1774 - 374 pages
...Celebrity to Bacon, to Hooker, to Miltox and to Boyle. When I am animated by this Wifh I look with Pleafure on my Book, however defective, and deliver it to the World with the Spirit of a Man that lias endeavoured well. That it will immediately become come popular, I have not promifed to myfelf...
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The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: The Adventurer. Philological tracts

Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - English literature - 1787 - 500 pages
...to Bacon, to Hooker, to Milton, and to Boyle. When I am animated by this wifh, I look with pleafure on my book, however defective, and deliver it to the world with the fpirit of a man that has endeavoured well. That it will immediately become popular I have not promifed...
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The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.

Samuel Johnson - Biography - 1801 - 454 pages
...to Bacon, to Hooker, to Milton, and to Boyle. When I am animated by this wifh, I look with pleafure on my book, however defective, and deliver it to the world with the fpirit of a man that has endeavoured well. That it will immediately become popular I have not promifed...
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A Dictionary of the English Language: In which the Words are ..., Volume 1

Samuel Johnson - English Language - 1805 - 954 pages
...Hooker, to Mitt on to Boyle. When I am animated by tins wish, I look with pleasure on my book, ho1 defective, and deliver it to the world with the spirit of a man that has endeav well. That it will immediately become popular I have not promised to mysejf : wild blunders,...
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The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.

Samuel Johnson - English literature - 1806 - 376 pages
...science, and add celebrity to Bacon, to Hooker, to Milton, and to Boyle. When I am animated by this wish, I look with pleasure on my book, however defective,...it to the world with the spirit of a man that has endeavoured well. That it will immediately become popular I have not promised to myself : a few wild...
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An Address to the British Public: On the Case of Brigadier-General Picton ...

Edward Alured Draper - Trinidad - 1806 - 364 pages
...succeeding ages. He says, " When I am animated by this " thought, I look with pleasure on my book, " and deliver it to the world with the spirit of a " man that has endeavoured well." — " In this " work, when it shall be found that much is 230 " omitted, le*t it...
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The Anti-Jacobin Review and Magazine, Issues 103-106

English literature - 1807 - 604 pages
...for succeeding ages. He says, ' When I am animated by this thought, I look with pleasure on my book, and deliver it to the. world with the spirit of a man that has endea¿ Toured well.' — ' In this work, when it shall be fui:nd that much is omitted, let it not...
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