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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... believe in all his volumi-- nous writings , not half a dozen of them will be found . He never used the phrafes the former and the latter , having obferved that they often occa- fioned obfcurity , he therefore contrived to con- ftruct ...
... believe in all his volumi-- nous writings , not half a dozen of them will be found . He never used the phrafes the former and the latter , having obferved that they often occa- fioned obfcurity , he therefore contrived to con- ftruct ...
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... believe , he was exceeded by no man of his " My master whipt me very well . Sir , I fhould have done nothing . " Langton , that while Hunter was boys unmercifully , he ufed to fay , do to fave you from the gallows . " upon all occafions ...
... believe , he was exceeded by no man of his " My master whipt me very well . Sir , I fhould have done nothing . " Langton , that while Hunter was boys unmercifully , he ufed to fay , do to fave you from the gallows . " upon all occafions ...
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... scholars in the whole history of literature have attained ; for when I once asked him whether a person whose name I have now forgotten , ftudied hard , he anfwered " No , Sir . I do not believe he ftudied hard . Sir , 48 THE LIFE OF.
... scholars in the whole history of literature have attained ; for when I once asked him whether a person whose name I have now forgotten , ftudied hard , he anfwered " No , Sir . I do not believe he ftudied hard . Sir , 48 THE LIFE OF.
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... believe he ftudied hard . I never knew a man who ftudied hard . I conclude , in- deed , from the effects , that fome men have ftudied hard , as Bentley and Clarke . " Trying him by that criterion upon which he formed his judgement of ...
... believe he ftudied hard . I never knew a man who ftudied hard . I conclude , in- deed , from the effects , that fome men have ftudied hard , as Bentley and Clarke . " Trying him by that criterion upon which he formed his judgement of ...
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... believe in every other translation , there is in the work itself no veftige of the tranflator's own style ; for the lan- guage of translation being adapted to the thoughts of another perfon , infenfibly follows their caft , and , as it ...
... believe in every other translation , there is in the work itself no veftige of the tranflator's own style ; for the lan- guage of translation being adapted to the thoughts of another perfon , infenfibly follows their caft , and , as it ...
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