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... lived , whose company has been universally courted ; I am justified in availing myself of the usual privilege of a dedication , when I mention that there has been a long and uninterrupted friendship be- tween us . If gratitude should be ...
... lived , whose company has been universally courted ; I am justified in availing myself of the usual privilege of a dedication , when I mention that there has been a long and uninterrupted friendship be- tween us . If gratitude should be ...
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... lived to pe- ruse it , and to give the strongest testimony to its fidelity ; but before a second edition , which he contributed to im- prove , could be finished , the world has been deprived of that most valuable man ; a loss of which ...
... lived to pe- ruse it , and to give the strongest testimony to its fidelity ; but before a second edition , which he contributed to im- prove , could be finished , the world has been deprived of that most valuable man ; a loss of which ...
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... lived toge- ther with companionable ease and familiarity ; nor had sir John Hawkins that nice perception which was necessary to mark the finer and less obvious parts of Johnson's cha- racter . His being appointed one of his executors ...
... lived toge- ther with companionable ease and familiarity ; nor had sir John Hawkins that nice perception which was necessary to mark the finer and less obvious parts of Johnson's cha- racter . His being appointed one of his executors ...
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... lived in great intimacy with him . There is , in the British Museum , a letter from bishop Warburton to Dr. Birch , on the subject of biography ; which , though I am aware it may expose me to a charge of artfully raising the value of my ...
... lived in great intimacy with him . There is , in the British Museum , a letter from bishop Warburton to Dr. Birch , on the subject of biography ; which , though I am aware it may expose me to a charge of artfully raising the value of my ...
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... lived .. And he will be seen as he really was ; for I profess to write , not his panegyrick , which must be all praise , but his life ; which , great and good as he was , must not be supposed to be entirely perfect . To be as he was ...
... lived .. And he will be seen as he really was ; for I profess to write , not his panegyrick , which must be all praise , but his life ; which , great and good as he was , must not be supposed to be entirely perfect . To be as he was ...
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