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... writing , and arithmetic , but who had an inexhaustible fund of stories about ghosts , banshees , and fairies , about the great Rap- paree chiefs , Baldearg O'Donnell and galloping Hogan , and about the exploits of Peterborough and ...
... writing , and arithmetic , but who had an inexhaustible fund of stories about ghosts , banshees , and fairies , about the great Rap- paree chiefs , Baldearg O'Donnell and galloping Hogan , and about the exploits of Peterborough and ...
Page xvii
... writer . For accurate research or grave disquisition , he was not well qualified by nature or by education . He knew nothing accurately ; his reading had been desultory ; nor had he meditated deeply on what he had read . He had seen ...
... writer . For accurate research or grave disquisition , he was not well qualified by nature or by education . He knew nothing accurately ; his reading had been desultory ; nor had he meditated deeply on what he had read . He had seen ...
Page xxiv
... writing the Deserted Village and She Stoops to Conquer , he was em- ployed on works of a very different kind , works from which he derived little reputation , but much profit . He compiled for the use of schools a XXIV MEMOIR OF GOLDSMITH .
... writing the Deserted Village and She Stoops to Conquer , he was em- ployed on works of a very different kind , works from which he derived little reputation , but much profit . He compiled for the use of schools a XXIV MEMOIR OF GOLDSMITH .
Page xxv
... write about the physical sciences , is sufficiently proved by two anecdotes . He on one occasion denied that the sun is longer in the northern than in the southern signs . It was vain to cite the authority of Mau- • pertuis ...
... write about the physical sciences , is sufficiently proved by two anecdotes . He on one occasion denied that the sun is longer in the northern than in the southern signs . It was vain to cite the authority of Mau- • pertuis ...
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... writing to his friends in Ireland ; and proceeded , a poor adventurer , to Jamaica , where he lived for many years without ever renewing an intercourse - with his friends , and by whom he was , of course , supposed to be dead ; though ...
... writing to his friends in Ireland ; and proceeded , a poor adventurer , to Jamaica , where he lived for many years without ever renewing an intercourse - with his friends , and by whom he was , of course , supposed to be dead ; though ...
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