The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D., Volume 1Talboys and Wheeler, 1826 |
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... labours , concurs in di- recting me to you , as the person to whom the following work should be inscribed . If there be a pleasure in celebrating the distinguished merit of a contemporary , mixed with a certain degree of vanity , not ...
... labours , concurs in di- recting me to you , as the person to whom the following work should be inscribed . If there be a pleasure in celebrating the distinguished merit of a contemporary , mixed with a certain degree of vanity , not ...
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... labour and anxious attention with which I have col- lected and arranged the materials of which these volumes are composed , will hardly be conceived by those who read them with careless facility . The stretch of mind and prompt ...
... labour and anxious attention with which I have col- lected and arranged the materials of which these volumes are composed , will hardly be conceived by those who read them with careless facility . The stretch of mind and prompt ...
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... labour , I do not wish to conceal but whatever doubts I at any time entertained , have been entirely removed by the very favourable re- ception with which it has been honoured . That reception has excited my best exertions to render my ...
... labour , I do not wish to conceal but whatever doubts I at any time entertained , have been entirely removed by the very favourable re- ception with which it has been honoured . That reception has excited my best exertions to render my ...
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... labours , I must acknowledge , exhibit a farrago , of which a consi- derable portion is not devoid of entertainment to the lovers of literary gossiping ; but besides its being swelled out with long unnecessary extracts from various ...
... labours , I must acknowledge , exhibit a farrago , of which a consi- derable portion is not devoid of entertainment to the lovers of literary gossiping ; but besides its being swelled out with long unnecessary extracts from various ...
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... labour which have been devoted to it misemployed , I shall content myself with opposing the authority of the greatest man of any age , Julius Cæsar , of whom Bacon observes , that " in his book of apophthegms which he collected , we see ...
... labour which have been devoted to it misemployed , I shall content myself with opposing the authority of the greatest man of any age , Julius Cæsar , of whom Bacon observes , that " in his book of apophthegms which he collected , we see ...
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