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'Spectator and' Guardian, 'Rapin's' English History, '' Cook's
Picturesque Quebec : a sequel to Quebec past and present 1868
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Crimes and loose Living; Murder, Rapin, and Oppression, were frequently practis'd by them; and if the suffering Inhabitants complain'd to the
Exilius 2008
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In this attitude I am determined to let her stand for five minutes: till I bring up the affairs of the kitchen (as Rapin does those of the church) to the same period.
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In this attitude I am determined to let her stand for five minutes: till I bring up the affairs of the kitchen (as Rapin does those of the church) to the same period.
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From the ancient I leaped to the modern world: many crude lumps of Speed, Rapin, Mezeray, Davila,
Memoirs of My Life and Writings Gibbon, Edward, 1737-1794 1994
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Rapin saw eloquence in all areas as seeking the dual ends of instruction and pleasure, with
RHETORIC AFTER PLATO BERNARD WEINBERG 1968
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They mostly refused to sign the petition, which was offered to them singly: and the commandant at Preston, Colonel Rapin, in his correspondence with Lord Townshend, expresses his annoyance at their obstinacy, and expatiates on the inconvenience of the numbers under his charge at Preston.
Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745 Volume II. Mrs. Thomson
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"It only speaks of Kings and Princes," says Rapin, by which he must mean that it chiefly and principally turns upon them: for both Virgil and Homer have occasion for Traitors, and Cryers, and Beggars, nay even Swineherds (in the Odysses), and yet still more, of whole Armies, which can't be all compos'd of Kings and Princes.
Epistle to a Friend Concerning Poetry (1700) and the Essay on Heroic Poetry (second edition, 1697) Samuel Wesley
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Similarly, when Rapin objects to Tasso's mingling of lyric softness in the majesty of the epic, Wesley points out sharply that no man of taste will part with the fine scenes of tender love in Tasso, Dryden,
Epistle to a Friend Concerning Poetry (1700) and the Essay on Heroic Poetry (second edition, 1697) Samuel Wesley
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"The country," writes Colonel Rapin to Lord Townshend, "is full of them [the Jacobites], and the same spirit reigns in London."
Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745 Volume II. Mrs. Thomson
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