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 Three Volumes ...Henry Baldwin, 1793 |
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... English- men towards ftrangers ; Sir , faid he , two men of any other nation who are fhewn into a room together , at a houfe where they are both vifitors , will immediately find fome converfation . But two Englishmen will probably go ...
... English- men towards ftrangers ; Sir , faid he , two men of any other nation who are fhewn into a room together , at a houfe where they are both vifitors , will immediately find fome converfation . But two Englishmen will probably go ...
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... English , which fhould always have the Saxon k . << Many a man is mad in certain inftances , and goes through life without having it perceived : - for example , a madness has feized a perfon of supposing himself obliged literally to ...
... English , which fhould always have the Saxon k . << Many a man is mad in certain inftances , and goes through life without having it perceived : - for example , a madness has feized a perfon of supposing himself obliged literally to ...
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... English , with an excellent paper in the Spectator , one of four that were written by the refpectable Diffenting Minifter Mr. Grove of Taunton , and obferving the genius and energy of mind that it exhibits , it greatly quickened his ...
... English , with an excellent paper in the Spectator , one of four that were written by the refpectable Diffenting Minifter Mr. Grove of Taunton , and obferving the genius and energy of mind that it exhibits , it greatly quickened his ...
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... English ; then let it be printed . and copies of it be deposited in various places for fecurity and preservation . " I can now only do the best I can to make up for this lofs , keeping my great Master steadily in view . Family hif ...
... English ; then let it be printed . and copies of it be deposited in various places for fecurity and preservation . " I can now only do the best I can to make up for this lofs , keeping my great Master steadily in view . Family hif ...
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... ENGLISH LANGUAGE , ad- dreffed to Philip Dormer Earl of Chefterfield . acknowl . $ 748 . Life of Rofcommon in the Gentleman's Magazine . ac- kno - ul . For Dodley's PRECEPTOR . Preface . acknowl . Vifion of Theodore the Hermit , acknowl ...
... ENGLISH LANGUAGE , ad- dreffed to Philip Dormer Earl of Chefterfield . acknowl . $ 748 . Life of Rofcommon in the Gentleman's Magazine . ac- kno - ul . For Dodley's PRECEPTOR . Preface . acknowl . Vifion of Theodore the Hermit , acknowl ...
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