The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.Talboys & Wheeler, 1826 |
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... publick utility . Were the grandeur of great souls only displayed , we should despair of attaining their elevation , and sit down in despondent inactivity : but when we learn that the great and good have occasionally been the victims of ...
... publick utility . Were the grandeur of great souls only displayed , we should despair of attaining their elevation , and sit down in despondent inactivity : but when we learn that the great and good have occasionally been the victims of ...
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... publick , than those of the illustri- ous subject of the following pages ; none have undergone a more rigid criticism ; and few have been honoured with a more growing fame . The keenest shafts of ridicule were levelled against them on ...
... publick , than those of the illustri- ous subject of the following pages ; none have undergone a more rigid criticism ; and few have been honoured with a more growing fame . The keenest shafts of ridicule were levelled against them on ...
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... publick have so long expressed their approbation of the work now once more offered to their notice , that we feel ourselves relieved from the necessity of an elabo- rate introduction ; and we are not so blindly par- tial as to willingly ...
... publick have so long expressed their approbation of the work now once more offered to their notice , that we feel ourselves relieved from the necessity of an elabo- rate introduction ; and we are not so blindly par- tial as to willingly ...
Page viii
... publick utility . Were the grandeur of great souls only displayed , we should despair of attaining their elevation , and sit down in despondent inactivity : but when we learn that the great and good have occasion- ally been the victims ...
... publick utility . Were the grandeur of great souls only displayed , we should despair of attaining their elevation , and sit down in despondent inactivity : but when we learn that the great and good have occasion- ally been the victims ...
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... publick . In pursuance of the same plan as we adopted in editing John- son's works , we have left no portion of the origi- nal narrative unsifted ; but , in scrupulous avoid- ance of tedious and redundant annotation , we have added ...
... publick . In pursuance of the same plan as we adopted in editing John- son's works , we have left no portion of the origi- nal narrative unsifted ; but , in scrupulous avoid- ance of tedious and redundant annotation , we have added ...
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