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Quo fit ut OMNIS Votiva pateat veluti descripta tabella VITA SENIS . HORAT .
VOLUME THE THIRD . OC DOMI MINA NVS TIO ILLVIMEA post axa OXFORD .
PUBLISHED BY WILLIAM PICKERING , LONDON ; AND TALBOYS AND
WHEELER ...
Quo fit ut OMNIS Votiva pateat veluti descripta tabella VITA SENIS . HORAT .
VOLUME THE THIRD . OC DOMI MINA NVS TIO ILLVIMEA post axa OXFORD .
PUBLISHED BY WILLIAM PICKERING , LONDON ; AND TALBOYS AND
WHEELER ...
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... as a proprietor of a newspaper entitled The World , was found guilty of a libel
against earl Cowper , deceased , because certain injurious charges against his
lordship were published in that h A gentleman who , from his extraordinary stores
...
... as a proprietor of a newspaper entitled The World , was found guilty of a libel
against earl Cowper , deceased , because certain injurious charges against his
lordship were published in that h A gentleman who , from his extraordinary stores
...
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In my Letter to the people of Scotland , against diminishing the number of the
Lords of Session , published in 1785 , there is the following passage , which , as
a concise , and I hope a fair and rational state of the matter , I presume to quote ...
In my Letter to the people of Scotland , against diminishing the number of the
Lords of Session , published in 1785 , there is the following passage , which , as
a concise , and I hope a fair and rational state of the matter , I presume to quote ...
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His luminous treatise on Equity was published without a name ; and is , indeed ,
from his repeated editions of the work , almost attributed to its editor Fonblanque ,
whose numerous and extended notes must be acknowledged to be useful ...
His luminous treatise on Equity was published without a name ; and is , indeed ,
from his repeated editions of the work , almost attributed to its editor Fonblanque ,
whose numerous and extended notes must be acknowledged to be useful ...
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This very piece was , after his death , published by some person who had been
about him , and , for the sake of a little hasty profit , was fallaciously advertised so
as to make it be believed to have been written by Johnson himself . I said , I ...
This very piece was , after his death , published by some person who had been
about him , and , for the sake of a little hasty profit , was fallaciously advertised so
as to make it be believed to have been written by Johnson himself . I said , I ...
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| Title | The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. Oxford English classics Volume 3 of The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D, James Boswell |
| Author | James Boswell |
| Publisher | Talboys & Wheeler, 1826 |
| Original from | Lyon Public Library |
| Digitized | 21 Sep 2010 |
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