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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... those laws might be prejudicial to the corn trade of England , " Sir Thomas , ( faid he , ) you talk the language of a savage : what , Sir ? would you prevent any people from feeding themselves if by any honeft means they can do it ...
... those laws might be prejudicial to the corn trade of England , " Sir Thomas , ( faid he , ) you talk the language of a savage : what , Sir ? would you prevent any people from feeding themselves if by any honeft means they can do it ...
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... those relations . He is certainly fubject by no law , but that of violence , to his present master ; who pretends no claim to his obedience , but that he bought him from a merchant of flaves , whofe right to fell him never was examined ...
... those relations . He is certainly fubject by no law , but that of violence , to his present master ; who pretends no claim to his obedience , but that he bought him from a merchant of flaves , whofe right to fell him never was examined ...
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... those which may be fully believed to be his from internal evidence , is added intern . evid . ] 1735. A BRIDGEMENT and tranflation of Lobo's Voyage to Abyffinia , acknowl . 1738. Part of a translation of Father Paul Sarpi's History of ...
... those which may be fully believed to be his from internal evidence , is added intern . evid . ] 1735. A BRIDGEMENT and tranflation of Lobo's Voyage to Abyffinia , acknowl . 1738. Part of a translation of Father Paul Sarpi's History of ...
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... those two lines , which exhibit at once a painful and ridiculous image , " For on the rope that hangs my Dear , 66 Depends poor Polly's life . " P. 378. 1. 23. for who , read - whom . P. 414. 1. 2. for Sevigé , read - Sevigné . VOLUME ...
... those two lines , which exhibit at once a painful and ridiculous image , " For on the rope that hangs my Dear , 66 Depends poor Polly's life . " P. 378. 1. 23. for who , read - whom . P. 414. 1. 2. for Sevigé , read - Sevigné . VOLUME ...
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... those not compiled by Johnson , but by Oldys , ) a very fmall part of it relates to the perfon who is the fubject of the book ; and , in that , there is fuch an inaccuracy in the ftatement of facts , as in fo folemn an authour is hardly ...
... those not compiled by Johnson , but by Oldys , ) a very fmall part of it relates to the perfon who is the fubject of the book ; and , in that , there is fuch an inaccuracy in the ftatement of facts , as in fo folemn an authour is hardly ...
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