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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... fame words , in order to avoid them . Nothing is more common than to mistake firnames when we hear them carelessly uttered for the first time . To pre- vent this , he ufed not only to pronounce them flowly and diftinctly , but to take ...
... fame words , in order to avoid them . Nothing is more common than to mistake firnames when we hear them carelessly uttered for the first time . To pre- vent this , he ufed not only to pronounce them flowly and diftinctly , but to take ...
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... fame Volume , p . 600 , I fhall now communicate it . " It must be agreed that in most ages many countries have had part of their inhabitants in a ftate of flavery ; yet it may be doubted whether flavery can ever be supposed the natural ...
... fame Volume , p . 600 , I fhall now communicate it . " It must be agreed that in most ages many countries have had part of their inhabitants in a ftate of flavery ; yet it may be doubted whether flavery can ever be supposed the natural ...
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... fame accuracy and generous zeal , with which the Noble Lord , who compiled that work has honoured and perpetuated his ancestry , A CHRO- A CHRONOLOGICAL CATALOGUE OF THE PROSE WORKS of SAMUEL JOHNSON * xxii THE LIFE OF.
... fame accuracy and generous zeal , with which the Noble Lord , who compiled that work has honoured and perpetuated his ancestry , A CHRO- A CHRONOLOGICAL CATALOGUE OF THE PROSE WORKS of SAMUEL JOHNSON * xxii THE LIFE OF.
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... fame Magazine his Reviews are of the following Books : " Birch's Hiftory of the Royal Society . " - " Browne's Christian Morals . " - " Warton's Effay on the Wri- tings and Genius of Pope , Vol . I . " — " Hampton's Tranflation of ...
... fame Magazine his Reviews are of the following Books : " Birch's Hiftory of the Royal Society . " - " Browne's Christian Morals . " - " Warton's Effay on the Wri- tings and Genius of Pope , Vol . I . " — " Hampton's Tranflation of ...
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... Fame , i . 415 ; iii . 45 . Farmer , Rev. Dr. Johnfon's letters to , i . 571 ; iii . 228 . Farquhar , the poet , iii . 254 . Favours unreasonable , i . 333 . Females , fucceffion of , fee Entail , Feudal fyftem . Ferguson , Sir Adam ...
... Fame , i . 415 ; iii . 45 . Farmer , Rev. Dr. Johnfon's letters to , i . 571 ; iii . 228 . Farquhar , the poet , iii . 254 . Favours unreasonable , i . 333 . Females , fucceffion of , fee Entail , Feudal fyftem . Ferguson , Sir Adam ...
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