The Life of Samuel Johnson, Volume 1G. Bayntun, 1925 - 1172 pages |
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... endeavour I have had the assistance not only of some of my particular friends , but of many other learned and ingenious men , by which I have been enabled to rectify some mistakes , and to enrich the Work with many valuable additions ...
... endeavour I have had the assistance not only of some of my particular friends , but of many other learned and ingenious men , by which I have been enabled to rectify some mistakes , and to enrich the Work with many valuable additions ...
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... endeavour ( says Dr. Warburton ) to give you what satisfaction I can in anything you want to be satisfied in any subject of Milton , and am extremely glad you intend to write his life . Almost all the life - writers we have had before ...
... endeavour ( says Dr. Warburton ) to give you what satisfaction I can in anything you want to be satisfied in any subject of Milton , and am extremely glad you intend to write his life . Almost all the life - writers we have had before ...
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... endeavour to record , and Nathaniel , who died in his twenty - fifth year . 1 1 Mr. Michael Johnson was a man of a large and robust body , and of a strong and active mind ; yet , as in the most solid rocks veins of unsound substance are ...
... endeavour to record , and Nathaniel , who died in his twenty - fifth year . 1 1 Mr. Michael Johnson was a man of a large and robust body , and of a strong and active mind ; yet , as in the most solid rocks veins of unsound substance are ...
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... endeavour to find out who this new author was . Mr. Richardson , after some inquiry , having informed him that he had discovered only that his name was Johnson , and that he was some obscure man , Pope said , He will soon be déterré ...
... endeavour to find out who this new author was . Mr. Richardson , after some inquiry , having informed him that he had discovered only that his name was Johnson , and that he was some obscure man , Pope said , He will soon be déterré ...
Page 66
... endeavour at rising in life . But such was his inflexible dignity of character , that he could not stoop to court the great ; without which , hardly any man has made his way to a high station . He could not expect to produce many such ...
... endeavour at rising in life . But such was his inflexible dignity of character , that he could not stoop to court the great ; without which , hardly any man has made his way to a high station . He could not expect to produce many such ...
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