The Student, Or, The Oxford and Cambridge Monthly Miscellany. Vol. I.[-II.].Christopher Smart J. Newbery in St. Paul's Church Yard, London; J. Barrett in Oxford; and J. Merrill in Cambridge., 1750 - College students' writings, English |
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... common practice of preying indifcriminately on the labours of others , yet we shall not to our knowledge publish any thing that has been printed before , or without the consent of the respective A 2 Authors : Authors : for the one we ...
... common practice of preying indifcriminately on the labours of others , yet we shall not to our knowledge publish any thing that has been printed before , or without the consent of the respective A 2 Authors : Authors : for the one we ...
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... common task of promoting a liberal and learned education . Nor is it to be doubted but that we shall meet with fuch reception , as is due to a fifter university . Our defign has already been fufficiently explained , and the publick will ...
... common task of promoting a liberal and learned education . Nor is it to be doubted but that we shall meet with fuch reception , as is due to a fifter university . Our defign has already been fufficiently explained , and the publick will ...
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... common appear- ances , and make them merely keep pace with the less quick but more plodding youth of their own standing . The former of these errors has often prov'd fatal to many a fine genius at his first fetting out in the Univer ...
... common appear- ances , and make them merely keep pace with the less quick but more plodding youth of their own standing . The former of these errors has often prov'd fatal to many a fine genius at his first fetting out in the Univer ...
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... common , and has hindered many bright youths from making a figure in the learned world , and from being of eminent use to themselves as well as their coun- try . Instead of employing their fingular talents closely to their studies , and ...
... common , and has hindered many bright youths from making a figure in the learned world , and from being of eminent use to themselves as well as their coun- try . Instead of employing their fingular talents closely to their studies , and ...
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... common , to mere pleasure or amusements , but to fuch useful fcholar - like purfuits as your more experienced friends in college will be pleafed to encourage you in for further improvement , without interfering with any of your ftated ...
... common , to mere pleasure or amusements , but to fuch useful fcholar - like purfuits as your more experienced friends in college will be pleafed to encourage you in for further improvement , without interfering with any of your ftated ...
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