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... that relating to Polypheme , may seem to some too minute . We trust , at all events , that our readers will accept them as evidence of our vigilant attention to our duty . Oxford , March , 1827 . THE LIFE OF SAMUEL JOHNSON , LL . D. BEING.
... that relating to Polypheme , may seem to some too minute . We trust , at all events , that our readers will accept them as evidence of our vigilant attention to our duty . Oxford , March , 1827 . THE LIFE OF SAMUEL JOHNSON , LL . D. BEING.
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... attention to such dis- tinctions , Nay , sir , never mind that : Nil te quæsiveris extra . ' 932 " At the time when his pension was granted to him , he said , with a noble literary ambition , " Had this happened twenty years ago , I ...
... attention to such dis- tinctions , Nay , sir , never mind that : Nil te quæsiveris extra . ' 932 " At the time when his pension was granted to him , he said , with a noble literary ambition , " Had this happened twenty years ago , I ...
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... attention . It will be afterwards referred to in this work . a I have since observed , that Johnson has further enforced the propriety of exhibiting the faults of virtuous and eminent men in their true colours , in the last paragraph of ...
... attention . It will be afterwards referred to in this work . a I have since observed , that Johnson has further enforced the propriety of exhibiting the faults of virtuous and eminent men in their true colours , in the last paragraph of ...
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... attention , but have not seen in them the slightest cause on that ground to withhold them from you . But , though not on that , yet on another ground I own I feel a little , yet but a little , reluctance to part with them : I mean on ...
... attention , but have not seen in them the slightest cause on that ground to withhold them from you . But , though not on that , yet on another ground I own I feel a little , yet but a little , reluctance to part with them : I mean on ...
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... attention and patronage to experi- mental knowledge and natural history . There are arts of manufacture practised in the countries in which you pre- side , which are yet very imperfectly known here , either to artificers or philosophers ...
... attention and patronage to experi- mental knowledge and natural history . There are arts of manufacture practised in the countries in which you pre- side , which are yet very imperfectly known here , either to artificers or philosophers ...
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