The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Comprehending an Account of His Studies and Numerous Works, in Chronological Order : a Series of His Epistolary Correspondence and Conversations with Many Eminent Persons : and Various Original Pieces of His Composition, Never Before Published : the Whole Exhibiting a View of Literature and Literary Men in Great-Britain, for Near Half a Century, During which He Flourished : in Two Volumes, Volume 2Henry Baldwin, 1791 |
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... believe Lord Hailes will advise you to rest ; every other notion of possession seems to me full of difficulties , and embarrassed with scruples . “ If these axioms be allowed , you have arrived now at full liberty without the help of ...
... believe Lord Hailes will advise you to rest ; every other notion of possession seems to me full of difficulties , and embarrassed with scruples . “ If these axioms be allowed , you have arrived now at full liberty without the help of ...
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... believe ; but it would be a picture of nothing . ** ( naming a worthy friend of ours , ) used to think a story , a story , till I fhewed him that truth was essential to it . ” I observed , that Foote entertained us with stories which ...
... believe ; but it would be a picture of nothing . ** ( naming a worthy friend of ours , ) used to think a story , a story , till I fhewed him that truth was essential to it . ” I observed , that Foote entertained us with stories which ...
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... believe , practised the lighter vices . ” Mr. Warton , being engaged , could not fup with us at our inn ; we had therefore another evening by ourselves . I asked Johnson , whether a man's being forward in making himself known to eminent ...
... believe , practised the lighter vices . ” Mr. Warton , being engaged , could not fup with us at our inn ; we had therefore another evening by ourselves . I asked Johnson , whether a man's being forward in making himself known to eminent ...
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... believe , considerable preferment in Ireland , but now lives in London , quite as a valetudinarian , afraid to go into any house but his own . He takes a short airing in his post - chaise every day . He has an elderly woman , whom he ...
... believe , considerable preferment in Ireland , but now lives in London , quite as a valetudinarian , afraid to go into any house but his own . He takes a short airing in his post - chaise every day . He has an elderly woman , whom he ...
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... believe marriages would in general be as happy , and often more so , if they were all made by the Lord Chancellor , upon a due consideration of characters and circumstances , without the parties having any choice in the matter . I ...
... believe marriages would in general be as happy , and often more so , if they were all made by the Lord Chancellor , upon a due consideration of characters and circumstances , without the parties having any choice in the matter . I ...
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