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 VolumesHenry Baldwin, 1793 |
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... Lord Eli- bank ? and how does Lord Monboddo ? " Bos- WELL . " Very well , Sir . Lord Monboddo ftill maintains the fuperiority of the favage life . " JOHNSON . " What ftrange narrowness of mind now is that , to think the things we have ...
... Lord Eli- bank ? and how does Lord Monboddo ? " Bos- WELL . " Very well , Sir . Lord Monboddo ftill maintains the fuperiority of the favage life . " JOHNSON . " What ftrange narrowness of mind now is that , to think the things we have ...
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... Lord Chancellor , or what you please . " BOSWELL . " Are you ferious , Sir , in advifing me to buy St. Kilda ? for if you should advise me to go to Japan , I believe I should do it . " JOHNSON . " Why yes , Sir , I am ferious ...
... Lord Chancellor , or what you please . " BOSWELL . " Are you ferious , Sir , in advifing me to buy St. Kilda ? for if you should advise me to go to Japan , I believe I should do it . " JOHNSON . " Why yes , Sir , I am ferious ...
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... Lord Bacon . But was not Lord Coke a mere lawyer ? " JOHNSON . " Why , I am afraid he was ; but he would have taken it very ill if you had told him fo . He would have profecuted you for fcandal . " BoSWELL . " Lord Mansfield is not a ...
... Lord Bacon . But was not Lord Coke a mere lawyer ? " JOHNSON . " Why , I am afraid he was ; but he would have taken it very ill if you had told him fo . He would have profecuted you for fcandal . " BoSWELL . " Lord Mansfield is not a ...
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... Lord Chefter- field told me that the word great fhould be pro- nounced so as to rhyme to ftate ; and Sir William ... Lords , the other , the beft fpeaker in the Houfe of Commons , differing entirely . " I again visited him at night ...
... Lord Chefter- field told me that the word great fhould be pro- nounced so as to rhyme to ftate ; and Sir William ... Lords , the other , the beft fpeaker in the Houfe of Commons , differing entirely . " I again visited him at night ...
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... Lord fmote in one night forty thousand Affyrians . " Sir , ( faid Johnson , ) you should recollect that there was a fupernatural interpofition ; they were destroyed by peftilence . You are not to suppose that the angel of the Lord went ...
... Lord fmote in one night forty thousand Affyrians . " Sir , ( faid Johnson , ) you should recollect that there was a fupernatural interpofition ; they were destroyed by peftilence . You are not to suppose that the angel of the Lord went ...
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