The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction. Volume 19, No. 553, June 23, 1832. Various

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СКАЧАТЬ he has done more harm than good; he has set fools a reasoning.' 'There is one thing in Mr. Hobbes's conduct,' said lord Devonshire, 'that I am unable to account for: he is always railing at books, yet always adding to their number.' 'I write, my lord,' answered Hobbes, 'to show the folly of writing. Were all the books in the world on board one vessel, I should feel a greater pleasure than that Lucretius speaks of in seeing the wreck.' 'But should you feel no tenderness for your own productions?' 'I care for nothing,' added he, 'but the Leviathan, and that might possibly escape by swimming.'"

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      Kennet's Parochial Antiquities.

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      Leland says "the hill on which the Keep stands, is large and of a terrible height, and the arx (i.e.) Keep, of it, havi

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Kennet's Parochial Antiquities.

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Leland says "the hill on which the Keep stands, is large and of a terrible height, and the arx (i.e.) Keep, of it, having three several wards, is the strongest, but not the biggest, that I ever saw in any ancient work in England."

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Beauties of England and Wales, vol. ii.

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See Supplementary Number of the Mirror, No. 549.

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Hinton is about a mile from Sturminister Newton.

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From Rhodes's "Peak Scenery."

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