The excellent Doctor had not even yet discovered that the King's commissioners were delighted with his postulates; and that to have kept them Postulating thus five months in succession, while naval and military preparations were slowly bringing forth a great event-which was soon to strike them with as much amazement as if the moon had fallen out of heaven-was one of the most decisive triumphs ever achieved by Spanish diplomacy.
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Indeed, with the earlier date formerly assigned to Habakkuk, the difficulty seemed all but insuperable, except by Postulating two Habakkuks or two Daniels.
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Nowhere else, within the records of human follies, do we find a corresponding case, in which the government and the patrician orders in the state, taking for granted, and absolutely Postulating the utter worthlessness for intellectual aims of those in and by whom they maintained their own grandeur and independence, undisguisedly and even professedly sought to ally themselves with a foreign literature, foreign literati, and a foreign language.
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