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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... which , if I recollect well , is tranflated by Dr. Clarke thus : femper appetere præftantissima , & omnibus aliis antecelleré ... Fib od : anulx9 small " He obferved , " it was a moft mortifying a 3 He DR . JOHNSON .
... which , if I recollect well , is tranflated by Dr. Clarke thus : femper appetere præftantissima , & omnibus aliis antecelleré ... Fib od : anulx9 small " He obferved , " it was a moft mortifying a 3 He DR . JOHNSON .
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... moft mortifying re- flexion for any man to confider , what he had done , compared with what he might have done . " " " He faid few people had intellectual resources fufficient to forego the pleafures of wine . They could not otherwife ...
... moft mortifying re- flexion for any man to confider , what he had done , compared with what he might have done . " " " He faid few people had intellectual resources fufficient to forego the pleafures of wine . They could not otherwife ...
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... moft affecting leave of me ; faid , he knew , it was a point of duty that called me away . We fhall all be forry to lofe you , faid he . Laudo tamen . " From Mr. LANGTON I have the following additional Particulars . " TALKING reverently ...
... moft affecting leave of me ; faid , he knew , it was a point of duty that called me away . We fhall all be forry to lofe you , faid he . Laudo tamen . " From Mr. LANGTON I have the following additional Particulars . " TALKING reverently ...
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... moft people more , than by dif- playing a fuperiour ability or brilliancy in conver- fation . They feem pleased at the time ; but their envy makes them curfe him at their hearts . " HAVING found Dr. Johnson's argument on the caufe of ...
... moft people more , than by dif- playing a fuperiour ability or brilliancy in conver- fation . They feem pleased at the time ; but their envy makes them curfe him at their hearts . " HAVING found Dr. Johnson's argument on the caufe of ...
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... moft folemn protest against his general doctrine with respect to the Slave Trade . For I will refolutely fay that his unfavourable notion of it was owing to prejudice , and imperfect , or falfe information . The wild and dangerous ...
... moft folemn protest against his general doctrine with respect to the Slave Trade . For I will refolutely fay that his unfavourable notion of it was owing to prejudice , and imperfect , or falfe information . The wild and dangerous ...
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