The Life of Samuel JohnsonOlms, 1973 - 639 pages |
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... political writer , epistolary writer , theologian , and poet.18 This " character " approach is less sophisticated than modern genre criticism , but to find such an ambitious classifi cation of the literary modes in which Johnson was ...
... political writer , epistolary writer , theologian , and poet.18 This " character " approach is less sophisticated than modern genre criticism , but to find such an ambitious classifi cation of the literary modes in which Johnson was ...
Page 291
... Political institu- tions are formed on the consideration of what will most frequently tend to the good of the whole , although now and then exceptions may Thus , it is better that a nation should have a supreme legislative power ...
... Political institu- tions are formed on the consideration of what will most frequently tend to the good of the whole , although now and then exceptions may Thus , it is better that a nation should have a supreme legislative power ...
Page 544
... Political Tracts , written in support of Government ; with the exception of his pamphlet on the Transactions respecting Falkland's Islands ; which , though controvertible in a political view , contains a dissuasive from offensive war ...
... Political Tracts , written in support of Government ; with the exception of his pamphlet on the Transactions respecting Falkland's Islands ; which , though controvertible in a political view , contains a dissuasive from offensive war ...
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