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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... himself , but not the cha- racter which he means to affume . himself , without going into other people . He cannot take off any perfon unless he is ftrongly marked , fuch as George Faulkner . He is like a painter , who can draw the ...
... himself , but not the cha- racter which he means to affume . himself , without going into other people . He cannot take off any perfon unless he is ftrongly marked , fuch as George Faulkner . He is like a painter , who can draw the ...
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... himself . After he had read for fome time , we were inter- rupted by the enterance of Mr. Kriftrom , a Swede , who was tutor to fome young gentlemen in the city . He told me , that there was a very good History of Sweden , by Daline ...
... himself . After he had read for fome time , we were inter- rupted by the enterance of Mr. Kriftrom , a Swede , who was tutor to fome young gentlemen in the city . He told me , that there was a very good History of Sweden , by Daline ...
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... himself a man of great confequence . ” 1772 . Etat . 63 . On Tuesday , March 31 , he and I dined at Ge- neral Paoli's . A queftion was ftarted , whether the state of marriage was natural to man . JOHNSON . " Sir , it is so far from ...
... himself a man of great confequence . ” 1772 . Etat . 63 . On Tuesday , March 31 , he and I dined at Ge- neral Paoli's . A queftion was ftarted , whether the state of marriage was natural to man . JOHNSON . " Sir , it is so far from ...
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... himself to me , ) would have been with a wench , had you not been here , O ! I forgot you were married , " 1772 . Atat . 63 . 1772 . Sir Adam fuggested , that luxury corrupts a Sir DR . JOHNSON . 25 authours. But even in this light he ...
... himself to me , ) would have been with a wench , had you not been here , O ! I forgot you were married , " 1772 . Atat . 63 . 1772 . Sir Adam fuggested , that luxury corrupts a Sir DR . JOHNSON . 25 authours. But even in this light he ...
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... himself , there is not fo much occafion for that attachment . No man is thought the worfe of here , whose brother was hanged . In uncommercial countries , many of the branches of a family muft depend on the stock ; fo , in order to make ...
... himself , there is not fo much occafion for that attachment . No man is thought the worfe of here , whose brother was hanged . In uncommercial countries , many of the branches of a family muft depend on the stock ; fo , in order to make ...
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