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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... 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 curiofity to vifit ...
... 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 curiofity to vifit ...
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... excellent Tract by my learned and ingenious friend John Ranby , Efq . en- titled " Doubts on the Abolition of the Slave Trade , " To Mr. Ranby's Doubts , " I will apply Lord Chancellor Hardwicke's expreffion in praise of a Scotch Law ...
... excellent Tract by my learned and ingenious friend John Ranby , Efq . en- titled " Doubts on the Abolition of the Slave Trade , " To Mr. Ranby's Doubts , " I will apply Lord Chancellor Hardwicke's expreffion in praise of a Scotch Law ...
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... - munications from Mr. Cambridge , whom , if a beautiful villa on the banks of the Thames , a few miles diftant from London , a numerous * b 2 and and excellent library , which he accurately knows and reads DR . JOHNSON . * xix.
... - munications from Mr. Cambridge , whom , if a beautiful villa on the banks of the Thames , a few miles diftant from London , a numerous * b 2 and and excellent library , which he accurately knows and reads DR . JOHNSON . * xix.
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... excellent library , which he accurately knows and reads , a choice collection of pictures , which he understands and relishes , an eafy fortune , an amiable family , an extenfive circle of friends and acquaintance , diftinguished by ...
... excellent library , which he accurately knows and reads , a choice collection of pictures , which he understands and relishes , an eafy fortune , an amiable family , an extenfive circle of friends and acquaintance , diftinguished by ...
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... excellent plan of Mr. Mason , in his Memoirs of Gray . Wherever narrative is neceffary to explain , connect , and supply , I furnish it to the best of my abilities ; but in the chronological series of Johnson's life , which I trace as ...
... excellent plan of Mr. Mason , in his Memoirs of Gray . Wherever narrative is neceffary to explain , connect , and supply , I furnish it to the best of my abilities ; but in the chronological series of Johnson's life , which I trace as ...
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