The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.Talboys & Wheeler, 1826 |
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... considering the important effects it would have produced had the historians and biographers of every age been under its influence . " How happy would the learned world have been , " says the present bishop Huntingford , " had Pericles ...
... considering the important effects it would have produced had the historians and biographers of every age been under its influence . " How happy would the learned world have been , " says the present bishop Huntingford , " had Pericles ...
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... consider , sir , that a house of commons is to the people as a creature is to its Creator . ' ' To this question , ' said Dr. Johnson , I could have replied , that — in the first place— the idea of a Creator must be such as that he has ...
... consider , sir , that a house of commons is to the people as a creature is to its Creator . ' ' To this question , ' said Dr. Johnson , I could have replied , that — in the first place— the idea of a Creator must be such as that he has ...
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... considering the works of a poeth , that " amendments are seldom made without some token of a rent ; " but I do not find that this is appli- cable to prose ' . We shall see that though his amend- ments in this work are for the better ...
... considering the works of a poeth , that " amendments are seldom made without some token of a rent ; " but I do not find that this is appli- cable to prose ' . We shall see that though his amend- ments in this work are for the better ...
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... consider it with parti- cular 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 ...
... consider it with parti- cular 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 ...
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... consider , that such small particulars are intended for those who are nicely critical in composition , to whom they will be an ac- ceptable selection1 . Spence's Anecdotes , which are frequently quoted and i In 1783 , when a third ...
... consider , that such small particulars are intended for those who are nicely critical in composition , to whom they will be an ac- ceptable selection1 . Spence's Anecdotes , which are frequently quoted and i In 1783 , when a third ...
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