Life of Johnson ...Harper, 1891 |
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Page 15
... publick occasion , he expressed much doubt of an enlightened decision ; and said , that perhaps there was not a member of it , who in the whole course of his life , had ever spent an hour by himself in balancing probabil- ities ...
... publick occasion , he expressed much doubt of an enlightened decision ; and said , that perhaps there was not a member of it , who in the whole course of his life , had ever spent an hour by himself in balancing probabil- ities ...
Page 24
... Publick Virtue was not a subject to interest the age . " ' ' Mr. Langton , when a very young man , read Dodsley's Cleone a Tragedy , to him , not aware of his extreme im- patience to be read to . As it went on he turned his face to the ...
... Publick Virtue was not a subject to interest the age . " ' ' Mr. Langton , when a very young man , read Dodsley's Cleone a Tragedy , to him , not aware of his extreme im- patience to be read to . As it went on he turned his face to the ...
Page 37
... publick , & c . BOSWELL . Boswell had always been nice in his spelling . In the Preface to his Corsica , published twenty - four years before The Life of Johnson , he defends his peculiarities , and says : - ' If this work should at any ...
... publick , & c . BOSWELL . Boswell had always been nice in his spelling . In the Preface to his Corsica , published twenty - four years before The Life of Johnson , he defends his peculiarities , and says : - ' If this work should at any ...
Page 46
... publick affairs in that variegated pe- riod , with strong yet nice touches of character ; and having a fair opportunity to display his political principles , does it with an unqualified manly confidence , and satisfies his read- ers how ...
... publick affairs in that variegated pe- riod , with strong yet nice touches of character ; and having a fair opportunity to display his political principles , does it with an unqualified manly confidence , and satisfies his read- ers how ...
Page 67
... publick opinion , review an authour's work , placido lumine ' , when I am afraid man- kind in general are better pleased with severity , he may surely express a grateful sense of their civility ' . ' To MISS BOOTHBY . ' DEAREST MADAM ...
... publick opinion , review an authour's work , placido lumine ' , when I am afraid man- kind in general are better pleased with severity , he may surely express a grateful sense of their civility ' . ' To MISS BOOTHBY . ' DEAREST MADAM ...
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