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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... best poet ? " Johnfon at once felt him - 3 felf roufed ; and anfwered , Sir , there is no fettling the point of precedency between a Toufe and a flea , ” in stora The Rev. Dr. MAXWELL'S Additional Communications ་ ན . ཨ " SPEAKING of ...
... best poet ? " Johnfon at once felt him - 3 felf roufed ; and anfwered , Sir , there is no fettling the point of precedency between a Toufe and a flea , ” in stora The Rev. Dr. MAXWELL'S Additional Communications ་ ན . ཨ " SPEAKING of ...
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... best I can to make up for this lofs , keeping my great Master steadily in view . Family hif tories , like the imagines majorum of the Ancients , excite to virtue ; and I wish that they who really have blood , would be more careful to ...
... best I can to make up for this lofs , keeping my great Master steadily in view . Family hif tories , like the imagines majorum of the Ancients , excite to virtue ; and I wish that they who really have blood , would be more careful to ...
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... best of my abilities ; but in the chronological series of Johnson's life , which I trace as diftinctly as I can , year by year , I produce , wherever it is in my power , his own minutes , letters , or converfation , being convinced that ...
... best of my abilities ; but in the chronological series of Johnson's life , which I trace as diftinctly as I can , year by year , I produce , wherever it is in my power , his own minutes , letters , or converfation , being convinced that ...
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... best display his character , is , I trust , too well established in the judgement of mankind , to be at all fhaken by a fneering obfervation of Mr. Mafon , in his Memoirs of Mr. William White- head , in which there is literally no Life ...
... best display his character , is , I trust , too well established in the judgement of mankind , to be at all fhaken by a fneering obfervation of Mr. Mafon , in his Memoirs of Mr. William White- head , in which there is literally no Life ...
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... best difcerned ; but very often an action of fmall note , a fhort say- ing , or a jeft , fhall distinguish a perfon's real cha- racter more than the greateft fieges , or the most important battles " . " To this may be added the ...
... best difcerned ; but very often an action of fmall note , a fhort say- ing , or a jeft , fhall distinguish a perfon's real cha- racter more than the greateft fieges , or the most important battles " . " To this may be added the ...
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