The life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: comprising a series of his epistolary correspondence and conversations with many eminent persons ...Routledge, 1867 - 526 pages |
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... given very general satisfaction ; and those who have found most fault with a passage here and there , have agreed that they could not help going through , and being entertained with the whole . I wish , indeed , some few gross expres ...
... given very general satisfaction ; and those who have found most fault with a passage here and there , have agreed that they could not help going through , and being entertained with the whole . I wish , indeed , some few gross expres ...
Page xiii
... given us Dr. Johnson's authority that in history all ought to be told . " Such a sanction to my faculty of giving a just representation of Dr. Johnson I could not con- ceal . Nor will I suppress my satisfaction in the consciousness ...
... given us Dr. Johnson's authority that in history all ought to be told . " Such a sanction to my faculty of giving a just representation of Dr. Johnson I could not con- ceal . Nor will I suppress my satisfaction in the consciousness ...
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... given upon a former occasion * have been received with so much approbation that I have good grounds for supposing that the world will not be indifferent to more ample commu- nications of a similar nature . That the conversation of a ...
... given upon a former occasion * have been received with so much approbation that I have good grounds for supposing that the world will not be indifferent to more ample commu- nications of a similar nature . That the conversation of a ...
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... given credit to his groundless opinion , when they had such undoubted proofs that it was totally falla- cious ; though it is by no means surprising that those who wish to depreciate him , should , since his death , have laid hold of ...
... given credit to his groundless opinion , when they had such undoubted proofs that it was totally falla- cious ; though it is by no means surprising that those who wish to depreciate him , should , since his death , have laid hold of ...
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... be pursued in the instruction of youth , is authentically ascertained by the following paper in his own handwriting , given about this C period to a relation , and now in the possession AGE 27. ] 17 BOSWELL'S LIFE OF JOHNSON .
... be pursued in the instruction of youth , is authentically ascertained by the following paper in his own handwriting , given about this C period to a relation , and now in the possession AGE 27. ] 17 BOSWELL'S LIFE OF JOHNSON .
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