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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... learning upon this occafion . You muft fhow , that a schoolmaster has a prefcriptive right to beat ; and that an action of affault and battery cannot be admitted against him , unless there is fome great excefs , fome bar- barity , This ...
... learning upon this occafion . You muft fhow , that a schoolmaster has a prefcriptive right to beat ; and that an action of affault and battery cannot be admitted against him , unless there is fome great excefs , fome bar- barity , This ...
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... learning , of wit , and of buf- foonery . He first travelled through Europe , and published his travels . He afterwards travelled on foot through Afia , and had made many remarks ; but he died at Mandoa , and his remarks were lost ...
... learning , of wit , and of buf- foonery . He first travelled through Europe , and published his travels . He afterwards travelled on foot through Afia , and had made many remarks ; but he died at Mandoa , and his remarks were lost ...
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... learning is regarded ; and how implicitly , where the inhabitants are not very rich , a rich man is hearkened to and followed . In a place like Campbelltown it is is eafy for one of the principal inhabitants to make a party . It is eafy ...
... learning is regarded ; and how implicitly , where the inhabitants are not very rich , a rich man is hearkened to and followed . In a place like Campbelltown it is is eafy for one of the principal inhabitants to make a party . It is eafy ...
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... learning to read and write is a distinction , the few who have that diftinction may be the lefs inclined to work ; but when every body learns to read and write , it is no longer a distinction . A man who has a laced waistcoat is too ...
... learning to read and write is a distinction , the few who have that diftinction may be the lefs inclined to work ; but when every body learns to read and write , it is no longer a distinction . A man who has a laced waistcoat is too ...
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... learning , and of very extenfive reading in English literature , especially the early writers , but at the fame time of acute difcernment and elegant taste . It is almoft unneceffary to fay , that by his great * He , however , wrote ...
... learning , and of very extenfive reading in English literature , especially the early writers , but at the fame time of acute difcernment and elegant taste . It is almoft unneceffary to fay , that by his great * He , however , wrote ...
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