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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... tion , which requires perpetual attention , and im- pofes perpetual constraint , is exceedingly disgust- ing . A fmall intermixture of provincial peculi- arities may , perhaps , have an agreeable effect , as the notes of different birds ...
... tion , which requires perpetual attention , and im- pofes perpetual constraint , is exceedingly disgust- ing . A fmall intermixture of provincial peculi- arities may , perhaps , have an agreeable effect , as the notes of different birds ...
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... tion as there was a greater variety of religious ce- remonies . Dr. Johnson went home with me to my lodgings in Conduit - street and drank tea , previous to our going to the Pantheon , which neither of us had feen before . He faid ...
... tion as there was a greater variety of religious ce- remonies . Dr. Johnson went home with me to my lodgings in Conduit - street and drank tea , previous to our going to the Pantheon , which neither of us had feen before . He faid ...
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... tion . A man who is good enough to go to heaven , is good enough to be a clergyman . " This was a humane and liberal fentiment . But the character of a clergyman is more facred than that of an or- dinary Chriftian . As he is to inftruct ...
... tion . A man who is good enough to go to heaven , is good enough to be a clergyman . " This was a humane and liberal fentiment . But the character of a clergyman is more facred than that of an or- dinary Chriftian . As he is to inftruct ...
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... tion the meaning is not very eafy to be found . No inftrument of correction is more proper than an- other , but as it is better adapted to produce prefent pain without lafting mischief . Whatever were his inftruments , no lafting ...
... tion the meaning is not very eafy to be found . No inftrument of correction is more proper than an- other , but as it is better adapted to produce prefent pain without lafting mischief . Whatever were his inftruments , no lafting ...
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... tion . The other conditions of a penal law , which though not abfolutely neceffary , are to a very high degree fit , are , that to the moral violation of the law law there are many temptations , and that of the 58 THE LIFE OF.
... tion . The other conditions of a penal law , which though not abfolutely neceffary , are to a very high degree fit , are , that to the moral violation of the law law there are many temptations , and that of the 58 THE LIFE OF.
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