Boswell's Life of Johnson: Including Boswell's Journal of a Tour of the Hebrides, and Johnson's Diary of A Journey Into North Wales, Volume 1Bigelow, Brown & Company, Incorporated, 1799 |
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... common sense and their freedom from all the tricks of affectation , a delightful contrast to so many of the eminent authors of our own time . Those trouble- some doubts , doubts of all kinds , which since the great upheaval of the ...
... common sense and their freedom from all the tricks of affectation , a delightful contrast to so many of the eminent authors of our own time . Those trouble- some doubts , doubts of all kinds , which since the great upheaval of the ...
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... common condition of humanity ; he is born and married like another man ; he has hopes and fears , expectations and disappointments , griefs and joys like a courtier or a statesman ' . In the hopes and fears , in the expectations and ...
... common condition of humanity ; he is born and married like another man ; he has hopes and fears , expectations and disappointments , griefs and joys like a courtier or a statesman ' . In the hopes and fears , in the expectations and ...
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... common centre of union for the great , the ac- complished , the learned , and the ingenious ; all these quali- ties I can , in perfect confidence of not being accused of flat- tery , ascribe to you . If a man may indulge an honest pride ...
... common centre of union for the great , the ac- complished , the learned , and the ingenious ; all these quali- ties I can , in perfect confidence of not being accused of flat- tery , ascribe to you . If a man may indulge an honest pride ...
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... common life . ' Letters of Boswell , p . 280. His quota- tions , nevertheless , are not unfrequently inaccurate . Yet to him might fairly be applied the words that Gibbon used of Tillemont : - His in- imitable accuracy almost assumes ...
... common life . ' Letters of Boswell , p . 280. His quota- tions , nevertheless , are not unfrequently inaccurate . Yet to him might fairly be applied the words that Gibbon used of Tillemont : - His in- imitable accuracy almost assumes ...
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... Common Soldiers was added to it when published in Volumes . acknowl . 1759. Rasselas Prince of Abyssinia , a Tale . acknowl . Advertisement for the Proprietors of the Idler against cer- tain Persons who pirated those Papers as they came ...
... Common Soldiers was added to it when published in Volumes . acknowl . 1759. Rasselas Prince of Abyssinia , a Tale . acknowl . Advertisement for the Proprietors of the Idler against cer- tain Persons who pirated those Papers as they came ...
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