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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... lived together with companionable ease and familiarity ; nor had Sir John Hawkins that nice perception which was neceffary to mark the finer and lefs obvious parts of Johnson's character . His being appointed one of his executors , gave ...
... lived together with companionable ease and familiarity ; nor had Sir John Hawkins that nice perception which was neceffary to mark the finer and lefs obvious parts of Johnson's character . His being appointed one of his executors , gave ...
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... lived in great intimacy with him . There is , in the British Museum , a letter from Bishop Warburton to Dr. Birch , on the fubject of biography ; which , though I am aware it may ex- pose me to a charge of artfully raifing the value of ...
... lived in great intimacy with him . There is , in the British Museum , a letter from Bishop Warburton to Dr. Birch , on the fubject of biography ; which , though I am aware it may ex- pose me to a charge of artfully raifing the value of ...
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... lived . And he will be seen as he really was ; for I profefs to write , not his panegyrick , which must be all praise , but his life ; which , great and good as he was , must not be supposed to be entirely perfect . To be as he was , is ...
... lived . And he will be seen as he really was ; for I profefs to write , not his panegyrick , which must be all praise , but his life ; which , great and good as he was , must not be supposed to be entirely perfect . To be as he was , is ...
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... lived about five hundred years ago , explains that paffage in the first Pfalm , His leaf alfo fhall not wither , from Rabbins yet older than himself , thus : That even the idle talk , fo he ex- preffes it , of a good man ought to be ...
... lived about five hundred years ago , explains that paffage in the first Pfalm , His leaf alfo fhall not wither , from Rabbins yet older than himself , thus : That even the idle talk , fo he ex- preffes it , of a good man ought to be ...
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... more than two children , both fons ; Samuel , their first born , who lived to be the 7 Bacon's Advancement of Learning , Book I. illustrious illuftrious character whofe various excellence I am to endeavour to 12 THE LIFE OF.
... more than two children , both fons ; Samuel , their first born , who lived to be the 7 Bacon's Advancement of Learning , Book I. illustrious illuftrious character whofe various excellence I am to endeavour to 12 THE LIFE OF.
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