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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... Judge Hale was a great lawyer , and wrote upon law ; and yet he knew a great many other things , and has writ- ten upon other things . Selden too . " SIR A. " Very true , Sir ; and Lord Bacon . But was not Lord Coke a mere lawyer ...
... Judge Hale was a great lawyer , and wrote upon law ; and yet he knew a great many other things , and has writ- ten upon other things . Selden too . " SIR A. " Very true , Sir ; and Lord Bacon . But was not Lord Coke a mere lawyer ...
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... judge who has a good taste in ftyle , and who has a bad . The two claffes of perfons whom you don't differ as to good and bad . that Swift has a good neat ftyle ; have mentioned They both agree but one loves a 1 neat style , another ...
... judge who has a good taste in ftyle , and who has a bad . The two claffes of perfons whom you don't differ as to good and bad . that Swift has a good neat ftyle ; have mentioned They both agree but one loves a 1 neat style , another ...
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... Judges to return to the ancient law . It was my own fincere opinion , that they ought to adhere to it ; but I had exhaufted all my powers of reasoning in vain . Johnfon thought as I did ; and in order to affist me in my application to ...
... Judges to return to the ancient law . It was my own fincere opinion , that they ought to adhere to it ; but I had exhaufted all my powers of reasoning in vain . Johnfon thought as I did ; and in order to affist me in my application to ...
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... Judge . He that is thus governed , lives not by law , but by opinion : not by a certain rule to which he can apply his intention before he acts , but by an uncertain and variable opinion , which he can never know but after he has ...
... Judge . He that is thus governed , lives not by law , but by opinion : not by a certain rule to which he can apply his intention before he acts , but by an uncertain and variable opinion , which he can never know but after he has ...
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... Judges to a relaxation of the law , it was not that the nation was grown lefs fierce ; and , I am afraid , it cannot be affirmed , that it is grown lefs frau- dulent . " Since this law has been represented as rigorously and unreasonably ...
... Judges to a relaxation of the law , it was not that the nation was grown lefs fierce ; and , I am afraid , it cannot be affirmed , that it is grown lefs frau- dulent . " Since this law has been represented as rigorously and unreasonably ...
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