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... eminent architect . From a very early period of his life , though of delicate constitution , he manifested that delight in the acquisition of knowledge which was continued throughout his subsequent career . In the year 1822 he ...
... eminent architect . From a very early period of his life , though of delicate constitution , he manifested that delight in the acquisition of knowledge which was continued throughout his subsequent career . In the year 1822 he ...
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... eminent among men . His work exerted an extraordinary influence upon the national modes of thought , and won for him the deep reverence of five centuries of Englishmen . It has been maintained that this great religious poet of the Anglo ...
... eminent among men . His work exerted an extraordinary influence upon the national modes of thought , and won for him the deep reverence of five centuries of Englishmen . It has been maintained that this great religious poet of the Anglo ...
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... eminent among the writers of prose in Old English . No sooner had he effected the deliverance of his people from their Danish encmics , than he eagerly set to work to lift them out of their bond- age to ignorance . From various quarters ...
... eminent among the writers of prose in Old English . No sooner had he effected the deliverance of his people from their Danish encmics , than he eagerly set to work to lift them out of their bond- age to ignorance . From various quarters ...
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... eminent merit , no name that is entitled to rank among intellects of the highest order . Energy of thought and expression , natural sweetness and simple pathos , are not wanting ; but there is still a complete absence of artistic form ...
... eminent merit , no name that is entitled to rank among intellects of the highest order . Energy of thought and expression , natural sweetness and simple pathos , are not wanting ; but there is still a complete absence of artistic form ...
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... eminent scholar who used the English tongue in attacking the ecclesiastical system . He was the fore runner of the Reformation . His sermons and polemical writings must be studied by those who would form a just notion of the highest ...
... eminent scholar who used the English tongue in attacking the ecclesiastical system . He was the fore runner of the Reformation . His sermons and polemical writings must be studied by those who would form a just notion of the highest ...
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