The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.Talboys & Wheeler, 1826 |
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... persons to do it ; but if that is other- wise , and all the materials we have are actually worked up , or all the manufactures we can use or dispose of are already executed , then what is given to the poor who are to be set at work ...
... persons to do it ; but if that is other- wise , and all the materials we have are actually worked up , or all the manufactures we can use or dispose of are already executed , then what is given to the poor who are to be set at work ...
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... persons in particulars of this nature , what Giannone said to a monk who wanted what he called to convert him : Tu sei santo , ma tu non sei filosofo .'- It is an unhappy circumstance , that one might give away five hundred pounds in a ...
... persons in particulars of this nature , what Giannone said to a monk who wanted what he called to convert him : Tu sei santo , ma tu non sei filosofo .'- It is an unhappy circumstance , that one might give away five hundred pounds in a ...
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... person , and that he was very much mortified by imagining that his opponent had the better of him . Now , ' said he , ' one may mark here the effect of sleep in weakening the power of reflection ; for had not my judgement failed me , I ...
... person , and that he was very much mortified by imagining that his opponent had the better of him . Now , ' said he , ' one may mark here the effect of sleep in weakening the power of reflection ; for had not my judgement failed me , I ...
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... " " Talking of the minuteness with which people will In a letter written by Johnson to a friend in Jan. 1742-3 , he says , " I never see Garrick . " - MALONE . record the sayings of eminent persons , a story was 6 [ 1780 . THE LIFE OF.
... " " Talking of the minuteness with which people will In a letter written by Johnson to a friend in Jan. 1742-3 , he says , " I never see Garrick . " - MALONE . record the sayings of eminent persons , a story was 6 [ 1780 . THE LIFE OF.
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James Boswell. record the sayings of eminent persons , a story was told , that when Pope was on a visit to Spence at ... person had advised him to go and hiss it , because she had at- tacked Shakespeare in her book called Shakespeare ...
James Boswell. record the sayings of eminent persons , a story was told , that when Pope was on a visit to Spence at ... person had advised him to go and hiss it , because she had at- tacked Shakespeare in her book called Shakespeare ...
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