The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.Macmillan, 1900 |
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... History of Britain ' well spoken of : I am told it is carried on in separate divisions , as the civil , the military , the religious history ; I wish much to have one branch well done , and that is the history of manners , of common ...
... History of Britain ' well spoken of : I am told it is carried on in separate divisions , as the civil , the military , the religious history ; I wish much to have one branch well done , and that is the history of manners , of common ...
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... History of Man . ' In treating of severity of punishment he mentions that of Madame Lapouchin , in Russia , but he does not give it fairly ; for I have looked at Chappe d'Autéroche , from whom he has taken it.1 He stops where it is said ...
... History of Man . ' In treating of severity of punishment he mentions that of Madame Lapouchin , in Russia , but he does not give it fairly ; for I have looked at Chappe d'Autéroche , from whom he has taken it.1 He stops where it is said ...
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... history of his aversion to the word transpire ? " Then taking down the folio Dictionary , he shewed it with this censure on its secondary sense : " To escape from secrecy to notice ; a sense lately innovated from France , without ...
... history of his aversion to the word transpire ? " Then taking down the folio Dictionary , he shewed it with this censure on its secondary sense : " To escape from secrecy to notice ; a sense lately innovated from France , without ...
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... History of Man , " for misrepresenting Clarendon's account of the appearance of Sir George Villiers ' ghost , as if Clarendon were weakly credulous ; when the truth is , that Clarendon only says , that the story was upon a better ...
... History of Man , " for misrepresenting Clarendon's account of the appearance of Sir George Villiers ' ghost , as if Clarendon were weakly credulous ; when the truth is , that Clarendon only says , that the story was upon a better ...
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... was reversed on appeal . 2 Temple Stanyan , at one time Minister to the Porte , author of an Account of Switzerland and a History of Greece . He died in 1752 . Croker . He said , " Lord Chatham was a Dictator ; III . E FRANCIS'S HORACE ...
... was reversed on appeal . 2 Temple Stanyan , at one time Minister to the Porte , author of an Account of Switzerland and a History of Greece . He died in 1752 . Croker . He said , " Lord Chatham was a Dictator ; III . E FRANCIS'S HORACE ...
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