r of the shrine, the on the most trivial matters. Now we use the word less as Milton did in “ Socrates. . . . Whom well inspir’d the flaming lamps to either side of the mummified head, the oracle pronounc’d Wisest of men,” than as slightingly did gesture of the priestess admonishing to silence… … appeared in 1695. Samuel Cooper. (From the engraving- in the Victoria and By Thomas Chambers, A.E. Albert Museum.) * Born 1682, died 1740.
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