“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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... allowed at all , they should only be retreats for persons unable to serve the public , or who have served it . It is our first duty to serve society ; and , after we have done that , v e may attend wholly to the salvation of our own ...
... allowed at all , they should only be retreats for persons unable to serve the public , or who have served it . It is our first duty to serve society ; and , after we have done that , v e may attend wholly to the salvation of our own ...
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... allowed in a court of justice . Rousseau , Sir , is a very bad man . I would sooner sign a sentence for his transportation than that of any felon who has gone from the Old Bailey these many years . Yes , I should like to have him work ...
... allowed in a court of justice . Rousseau , Sir , is a very bad man . I would sooner sign a sentence for his transportation than that of any felon who has gone from the Old Bailey these many years . Yes , I should like to have him work ...
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... allowed to go on . The following letters , though not written till the year after , being chiefly upon the same subject , are here inserted : - " DEAR SIR , " TO MR . WILLIAM DRUMMOND . Johnson's - court , Fleet - street , April 21 ...
... allowed to go on . The following letters , though not written till the year after , being chiefly upon the same subject , are here inserted : - " DEAR SIR , " TO MR . WILLIAM DRUMMOND . Johnson's - court , Fleet - street , April 21 ...
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... allowed to the dying declarations , because they were spontaneous . There is a great difference between what is said without our being urged to it , and what is said from a kind of compul- sion . If I praise a man's book without being ...
... allowed to the dying declarations , because they were spontaneous . There is a great difference between what is said without our being urged to it , and what is said from a kind of compul- sion . If I praise a man's book without being ...
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... allowed us to prepare for eternity : " The night cometh when no man can work . " He some time afterwards laid aside this dial - plate ; and when I asked him the reason , he said , " It might do very well upon a clock which a man keeps ...
... allowed us to prepare for eternity : " The night cometh when no man can work . " He some time afterwards laid aside this dial - plate ; and when I asked him the reason , he said , " It might do very well upon a clock which a man keeps ...
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