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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... diftinguished by rank , fashion and genius , a literary fame , various , elegant , and still increasing , colloquial talents rarely to be found , and with all these means of happiness , enjoying , when well advanced in years , health ...
... diftinguished by rank , fashion and genius , a literary fame , various , elegant , and still increasing , colloquial talents rarely to be found , and with all these means of happiness , enjoying , when well advanced in years , health ...
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... diftinguished by his eminent Piety , Learning and Tafte . The amiable fimplicity of his life , his warm benevolence , his inde . fatigable and fuccefsful exertions for civilizing and improving the Parish of which he was Minifter for ...
... diftinguished by his eminent Piety , Learning and Tafte . The amiable fimplicity of his life , his warm benevolence , his inde . fatigable and fuccefsful exertions for civilizing and improving the Parish of which he was Minifter for ...
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... diftinguished atchievements that men's virtues or vices may be 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 ...
... diftinguished atchievements that men's virtues or vices may be 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 ...
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... diftinguished by nothing more certainly than an eminent degree of curiofity ; nor is that curiofity ever more agreeably or usefully employed , than in examining the laws and cuftoms of foreign nations . I hope , therefore , the prefent ...
... diftinguished by nothing more certainly than an eminent degree of curiofity ; nor is that curiofity ever more agreeably or usefully employed , than in examining the laws and cuftoms of foreign nations . I hope , therefore , the prefent ...
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... dif- tinguished yourself by your generous encourage- ment of poetry ; and whofe judgment of that art nothing but your commendation of my trifle can give me any occafion to call in question . I do not doubt but you will look over this ...
... dif- tinguished yourself by your generous encourage- ment of poetry ; and whofe judgment of that art nothing but your commendation of my trifle can give me any occafion to call in question . I do not doubt but you will look over this ...
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