“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: ...G. Routledge & Company, Farringdon Street, 1857 - 300 pages |
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... Italy - Johnson visits Oxford -Returns to London - His contempt for Popular Liberty - Dr . Kenrick's Pamphlet― Johnson places Francis Barber at School - Conversational strictures on Thomson the Poet and Dr. Mounsey - Origin of the ...
... Italy - Johnson visits Oxford -Returns to London - His contempt for Popular Liberty - Dr . Kenrick's Pamphlet― Johnson places Francis Barber at School - Conversational strictures on Thomson the Poet and Dr. Mounsey - Origin of the ...
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... Italy , Johnson said , sarcastically , " It seems , sir , you have kept very good company abroad , Rousseau and Wilkes ! Thinking it enough to de- fend one at a time , I said nothing as to my gay friend , but answered with a smile ...
... Italy , Johnson said , sarcastically , " It seems , sir , you have kept very good company abroad , Rousseau and Wilkes ! Thinking it enough to de- fend one at a time , I said nothing as to my gay friend , but answered with a smile ...
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... Italian friend , Baretti ; where , talking of the monastic life , you say you do not wonder that serious men should put themselves under the protection of a religious order , when they have found how unable they are to take care of ...
... Italian friend , Baretti ; where , talking of the monastic life , you say you do not wonder that serious men should put themselves under the protection of a religious order , when they have found how unable they are to take care of ...
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... ITALY- JOHNSON VISITS OXFORD - RETURNS TO LONDON - HIS CONTEMPT FOR POPULAR LIBERTY -DR . KENRICK'S PAMPHLET - JOHNSON PLACES FRANCIS BARBER AT SCHOOL - CONVER- SATIONAL STRICTURES ON THOMSON THE POET AND DR . MOUNSEY - ORIGIN OF THE ...
... ITALY- JOHNSON VISITS OXFORD - RETURNS TO LONDON - HIS CONTEMPT FOR POPULAR LIBERTY -DR . KENRICK'S PAMPHLET - JOHNSON PLACES FRANCIS BARBER AT SCHOOL - CONVER- SATIONAL STRICTURES ON THOMSON THE POET AND DR . MOUNSEY - ORIGIN OF THE ...
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... Italy , seen the experi- ment of placing a scorpion within a circle of burning coals ; that it ran round and round in extreme pain , and finding no way to escape , retired to the centre , and like a true stoic philosopher , darted its ...
... Italy , seen the experi- ment of placing a scorpion within a circle of burning coals ; that it ran round and round in extreme pain , and finding no way to escape , retired to the centre , and like a true stoic philosopher , darted its ...
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