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Page 339 - Text, wherein the alterations introduced into it by the more modern editors and critics are particularly considered,
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Page 221 - they don't know when to abuse him, and when to praise him; I will allow no man to speak ill of David that he does not deserve; and as to Sir John, why really I believe him to be an honest man at the bottom: but to be sure he is penurious, and he is mean, and it must be owned he has a degree of brutality, and a tendency to savageness, that cannot easily be defended.
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Page 42 - ... of a sanguine complexion, naturally of such a vivacity, hilarity, and alacrity as another man hath when he hath drunken a cup too much ; but naturally, also, so far from humble thoughts of himself, that it was his ruin.
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| Title | The Dictionary of National Biography |
| Authors | Stephen (Sir Leslie), Robert Blake, Christine Stephanie Nicholls |
| Editor | Sir Sidney Lee |
| Published | 1908 |
| Original from | the University of California |
| Digitized | Aug 9, 2007 |
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