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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... perhaps , or from the fpirit of contradiction , eager ly maintained that Derrick had merit as a writer . Mr. Morgan argued with him directly , in vain . At length he had recourfe to this device . " Pray , Sir , ( faid he , ) whether do ...
... perhaps , or from the fpirit of contradiction , eager ly maintained that Derrick had merit as a writer . Mr. Morgan argued with him directly , in vain . At length he had recourfe to this device . " Pray , Sir , ( faid he , ) whether do ...
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... perhaps would have rejected . If we should admit , what perhaps may with more reafon be denied , that there are certain relations between man and man which may make flavery necessary and just , yet it can never be proved that he who is ...
... perhaps would have rejected . If we should admit , what perhaps may with more reafon be denied , that there are certain relations between man and man which may make flavery necessary and just , yet it can never be proved that he who is ...
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... perhaps , he was in the right . But I beg leave to enter my 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 ...
... perhaps , he was in the right . But I beg leave to enter my 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 ...
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... perhaps to the collector himself , may not be most agreeable to many ; and the greater number that an authour can please in any degree , the more pleasure does there arife to a benevolent mind . To those who are weak enough to think ...
... perhaps to the collector himself , may not be most agreeable to many ; and the greater number that an authour can please in any degree , the more pleasure does there arife to a benevolent mind . To those who are weak enough to think ...
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... perhaps , have ftudied more affiduously ; but it may be doubted , whether fuch a mind as his was not more enriched by roaming at large in the fields of literature , than if it had been confined to any fingle fpot . The analogy between ...
... perhaps , have ftudied more affiduously ; but it may be doubted , whether fuch a mind as his was not more enriched by roaming at large in the fields of literature , than if it had been confined to any fingle fpot . The analogy between ...
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