The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D., Volume 1Talboys & Wheeler, 1826 |
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... excellent biographer . His contributions to my collection are highly estimable ; and as he had a true relish of my Tour to the Hebrides , I trust I should now have been gratified with a larger share of his kind appro- bation . Dr. Adams ...
... excellent biographer . His contributions to my collection are highly estimable ; and as he had a true relish of my Tour to the Hebrides , I trust I should now have been gratified with a larger share of his kind appro- bation . Dr. Adams ...
Page xiii
... excellent . His strong , clear , and animated enforcement of reli- gion , morality , loyalty , and subordination , while it de- lights and improves the wise and the good , will , I trust , prove an effectual antidote to that detestable ...
... excellent . His strong , clear , and animated enforcement of reli- gion , morality , loyalty , and subordination , while it de- lights and improves the wise and the good , will , I trust , prove an effectual antidote to that detestable ...
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... excellent plan of Mr. Mason , in his Memoirs of Gray . Wherever narrative is necessary to explain , connect , and supply , I furnish it to the best of my abilities ; but in the chronological series of Johnson's life , which I trace , as ...
... excellent plan of Mr. Mason , in his Memoirs of Gray . Wherever narrative is necessary to explain , connect , and supply , I furnish it to the best of my abilities ; but in the chronological series of Johnson's life , which I trace , as ...
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... excellent master , and that his ushers were most of them men of emi- nence ; that Holdbrook , one of the most ingenious men , best scholars , and best preachers of his age , was usher during the greatest part of the time that Johnson ...
... excellent master , and that his ushers were most of them men of emi- nence ; that Holdbrook , one of the most ingenious men , best scholars , and best preachers of his age , was usher during the greatest part of the time that Johnson ...
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... excellent lady , some few days before her death , in 1756 , he again says , " I have returned your Law : which , however , I earnestly entreat you to give me . " It must be confessed , however , that Law's almost mystick effusions ...
... excellent lady , some few days before her death , in 1756 , he again says , " I have returned your Law : which , however , I earnestly entreat you to give me . " It must be confessed , however , that Law's almost mystick effusions ...
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