The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.Talboys & Wheeler, 1826 |
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... less than the SEDAN , ELZEVIR , or LOUVRF , which it will be found to excel in purity of text , literal accuracy , and typographical elegance . From their portability , these Miniature Classics will recommend themselves as convenient ...
... less than the SEDAN , ELZEVIR , or LOUVRF , which it will be found to excel in purity of text , literal accuracy , and typographical elegance . From their portability , these Miniature Classics will recommend themselves as convenient ...
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... less than the SEDAN , ELZEVIR , or Louvre , which it will be found to excel in purity of text , literal accuracy , and typographical elegance . From their portability , these Miniature Classics will recommend themselves as convenient ...
... less than the SEDAN , ELZEVIR , or Louvre , which it will be found to excel in purity of text , literal accuracy , and typographical elegance . From their portability , these Miniature Classics will recommend themselves as convenient ...
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... less , he would not have laboured so diligently in compiling these memoirs , to which succeeding biographers have been able to add so little ; and had he been more coldly wise , he would have produced a less amusing , and , if we may be ...
... less , he would not have laboured so diligently in compiling these memoirs , to which succeeding biographers have been able to add so little ; and had he been more coldly wise , he would have produced a less amusing , and , if we may be ...
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... less explicit in his narrative , its moral influence would have been diminished ; and we submit , that in the following anecdotes , injudicious as some of them may be confessed to be , Johnson's fame alone is sullied , while the ...
... less explicit in his narrative , its moral influence would have been diminished ; and we submit , that in the following anecdotes , injudicious as some of them may be confessed to be , Johnson's fame alone is sullied , while the ...
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... less acquaintance with one of the clas- sicks than Johnson expected , when the gentleman left the room , he observed , ' You see , now , how little any body reads . ' Mr. Langton happening to mention his having read a good deal in ...
... less acquaintance with one of the clas- sicks than Johnson expected , when the gentleman left the room , he observed , ' You see , now , how little any body reads . ' Mr. Langton happening to mention his having read a good deal in ...
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