The Republic of Letters' is a very common expression among the Europeans.
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As a wit, if not first, in the very first line.Oliver Goldsmith
And still they gazed, and still the wonder grew, That one small head should carry all it knew.
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A night-cap deck'd his brows instead of bay, A cap by night, a stocking all the day.
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It seemed to me pretty plain, that they had more of love than matrimony in them.
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He cast off his friends as a huntsman his pack, For he knew when he pleas'd he could whistle them back.
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To begin with Ireland, the most western part of the continent, the natives are peculiarly remarkable for their gaiety and levity of their disposition the English, transplanted there, in time lose their serious melancholy air, and become gay and tho.
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