“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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... consider the present Earl of Bute to be ' Excelsæ familiæ de Bute spes prima ; ' and my Lord Mountstuart , as his eldest son , to be ' spes altera . ' So in Æneid xii . 1. 168 , after having mentioned Pater Æneas , who was the present ...
... consider the present Earl of Bute to be ' Excelsæ familiæ de Bute spes prima ; ' and my Lord Mountstuart , as his eldest son , to be ' spes altera . ' So in Æneid xii . 1. 168 , after having mentioned Pater Æneas , who was the present ...
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... consider whether the publication will really do any good ; next , whether by printing and distributing a very small number , you may not attain all that you propose ; and , what perhaps I should have said first , whether the letter ...
... consider whether the publication will really do any good ; next , whether by printing and distributing a very small number , you may not attain all that you propose ; and , what perhaps I should have said first , whether the letter ...
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... consider that I was depreciating this man in the estimation of his sovereign , and thought it was time for me to say something that might be more favourable . " He added , therefore , that Dr. Hill was , notwithstanding , a very curious ...
... consider that I was depreciating this man in the estimation of his sovereign , and thought it was time for me to say something that might be more favourable . " He added , therefore , that Dr. Hill was , notwithstanding , a very curious ...
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... consider it inde- pendent of the voluminous collection of letters which , in the course of many years , he wrote to Mrs. Thrale , which forms a separate part of his works ; and as a proof of the high estima- tion set on anything which ...
... consider it inde- pendent of the voluminous collection of letters which , in the course of many years , he wrote to Mrs. Thrale , which forms a separate part of his works ; and as a proof of the high estima- tion set on anything which ...
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... Consider fairly what is the case . The Corsicans never received any kindness from the Genoese . They never agreed to be subject to them . They owe them nothing ; and when reduced to an abject state of slavery , by force , shall they not ...
... Consider fairly what is the case . The Corsicans never received any kindness from the Genoese . They never agreed to be subject to them . They owe them nothing ; and when reduced to an abject state of slavery , by force , shall they not ...
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