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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... given to Diomed by his father , when he fent ས་ him to the Trojan war , was the noblest exhortation that could be inftanced in any heathen writer , and comprised in a fingle line : 102 309379T LIGNEMA 4 anibel gros αιεν αριστεύειν , και ...
... given to Diomed by his father , when he fent ས་ him to the Trojan war , was the noblest exhortation that could be inftanced in any heathen writer , and comprised in a fingle line : 102 309379T LIGNEMA 4 anibel gros αιεν αριστεύειν , και ...
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... given in the 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 ...
... given in the 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 ...
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... given , we doubt not but the justice of the court will declare him free . " I record Dr. Johnson's argument fairly upon this particular cafe ; where , perhaps , he was in the right . But I beg leave to enter my moft folemn protest ...
... given , we doubt not but the justice of the court will declare him free . " I record Dr. Johnson's argument fairly upon this particular cafe ; where , perhaps , he was in the right . But I beg leave to enter my moft folemn protest ...
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... given to the World by the Reverend Samuel Hayes , A.M. intern . evid . Such was the number and variety of the Profe Works of this extraordinary man , which I have been able to difcover and am at liberty to mention ; but we ought to keep ...
... given to the World by the Reverend Samuel Hayes , A.M. intern . evid . Such was the number and variety of the Profe Works of this extraordinary man , which I have been able to difcover and am at liberty to mention ; but we ought to keep ...
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... given ' , that every man's life may be beft written by himfelf ; had he employed in the prefervation of his own hiftory , that clearness of narration and elegance of language in which he has embalmed so many eminent perfons , the world ...
... given ' , that every man's life may be beft written by himfelf ; had he employed in the prefervation of his own hiftory , that clearness of narration and elegance of language in which he has embalmed so many eminent perfons , the world ...
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