The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D., Volume 2Macmillan, 1912 |
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... Consider , Sir , would any of them have been willing to have had it known that they intrigued with France ? Depend upon it , Sir , he who does what he is afraid should be known , has something rotten about him . This Dalrymple seems to ...
... Consider , Sir , would any of them have been willing to have had it known that they intrigued with France ? Depend upon it , Sir , he who does what he is afraid should be known , has something rotten about him . This Dalrymple seems to ...
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... consider to how very small a proportion of our people luxury can reach . Our soldiery , surely , are not luxurious , who live on sixpence a day ; and the same remark will apply to almost all the other classes . Luxury , so far as it ...
... consider to how very small a proportion of our people luxury can reach . Our soldiery , surely , are not luxurious , who live on sixpence a day ; and the same remark will apply to almost all the other classes . Luxury , so far as it ...
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... consider an author's literary reputation to be alive only while his name will insure a good price for his copy from the booksellers . I will get you [ to Johnson ] a hundred guineas for any thing whatever that you shall write , if you ...
... consider an author's literary reputation to be alive only while his name will insure a good price for his copy from the booksellers . I will get you [ to Johnson ] a hundred guineas for any thing whatever that you shall write , if you ...
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... consider how that penetration and that painting are employed . It is not history , it is imagination . He who describes what he never saw , draws from fancy . Robertson paints minds as Sir Joshua paints faces in a history - piece : he ...
... consider how that penetration and that painting are employed . It is not history , it is imagination . He who describes what he never saw , draws from fancy . Robertson paints minds as Sir Joshua paints faces in a history - piece : he ...
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... consider what the people would really gain by a general abolition of the right of patronage . What is most to be desired by such a change is , that the country should be supplied with better ministers . But why should we suppose that ...
... consider what the people would really gain by a general abolition of the right of patronage . What is most to be desired by such a change is , that the country should be supplied with better ministers . But why should we suppose that ...
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