The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: Comprehending an Account of His Studies, and Numerous Works, in Chronological Order; a Series of His Epistolary Correspondence and Conversations with Many Eminent Persons; and Various Original Pieces of His Composition Never Before Published: the Whole Exhibiting a View of Literature and Literary Men in Great Britain, for Near Half a Century During which He Flourished, Volume 5C. Ewer & T. Bedlington, 1824 |
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... ( answered Imlack ) , because they are wiser . Knowledge will always predominate over ignorance , as man governs the other animals . But why their knowledge is more than ours , I know not what reason can be given , but the unsearchable ...
... ( answered Imlack ) , because they are wiser . Knowledge will always predominate over ignorance , as man governs the other animals . But why their knowledge is more than ours , I know not what reason can be given , but the unsearchable ...
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... answer , and Dr. Johnson , with great alacrity , furnished me this evening with what fol- lows : " All injury is either of the person , the fortune , or the fame . Now it is a certain thing , it is proverbially known , that a jest ...
... answer , and Dr. Johnson , with great alacrity , furnished me this evening with what fol- lows : " All injury is either of the person , the fortune , or the fame . Now it is a certain thing , it is proverbially known , that a jest ...
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... answered by a very old position , -De minimis non cu- rat Prætor . " Whether there was , or was not , an animus injuri- andi , is not worth inquiring , if no injuria can be proved . But the truth is , there was no animus injuriandi . It ...
... answered by a very old position , -De minimis non cu- rat Prætor . " Whether there was , or was not , an animus injuri- andi , is not worth inquiring , if no injuria can be proved . But the truth is , there was no animus injuriandi . It ...
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... answer your letter on the same day in which I received it , and am pleased that my first letter of the year is to you . No man ought to be at ease while he knows himself in the wrong ; and I have not satisfied myself with my long ...
... answer your letter on the same day in which I received it , and am pleased that my first letter of the year is to you . No man ought to be at ease while he knows himself in the wrong ; and I have not satisfied myself with my long ...
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... answer to one which accompanied one of the earliest pamphlets on the subject of Chatterton's forgery , entitled 66 Cursory Observations on the Poems attributed to Thomas Rowley , " & c . Mr. Thomas Warton's very able " In- quiry ...
... answer to one which accompanied one of the earliest pamphlets on the subject of Chatterton's forgery , entitled 66 Cursory Observations on the Poems attributed to Thomas Rowley , " & c . Mr. Thomas Warton's very able " In- quiry ...
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