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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... live in a state of marriage , that we find all the motives which they have for remaining in that connection , and the reftraints which civilized fociety impofes to prevent feparation , are hardly fufficient to keep them together . " The ...
... live in a state of marriage , that we find all the motives which they have for remaining in that connection , and the reftraints which civilized fociety impofes to prevent feparation , are hardly fufficient to keep them together . " The ...
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... live under one form of go- vernment rather than another . It is of no moment to the happiness of an individual . Sir , the danger of the abuse of power is nothing to a private man . What Frenchman is prevented from paffing his life as ...
... live under one form of go- vernment rather than another . It is of no moment to the happiness of an individual . Sir , the danger of the abuse of power is nothing to a private man . What Frenchman is prevented from paffing his life as ...
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... live very well with Burke : I love his knowledge , his genius , his diffufion , and af- fluence of converfation ; but I would not talk to him of , the Rockingham party , " GOLDSMITH , " But , Sir , when people live together who have ...
... live very well with Burke : I love his knowledge , his genius , his diffufion , and af- fluence of converfation ; but I would not talk to him of , the Rockingham party , " GOLDSMITH , " But , Sir , when people live together who have ...
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... lives by 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 ...
... lives by 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 ...
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... live in cities , and are of no profeffion . He faid , " there is no permanent national cha- racter ; it varies according to circumftances . Alexander the Great fwept India : now the Turks fweep Greece . " A learned gentleman who in the ...
... live in cities , and are of no profeffion . He faid , " there is no permanent national cha- racter ; it varies according to circumftances . Alexander the Great fwept India : now the Turks fweep Greece . " A learned gentleman who in the ...
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