“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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... Leave reason , faith , and conscience , all our own . " He added , “ These are all of which I can be sure . " They bear a small proportion to the whole , which consists of four hundred and thirty - eight verses . Goldsmith , in the ...
... Leave reason , faith , and conscience , all our own . " He added , “ These are all of which I can be sure . " They bear a small proportion to the whole , which consists of four hundred and thirty - eight verses . Goldsmith , in the ...
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... leave a thorn in your mind , which you will , perhaps , never be able to extract or eject . Take this warning ; it is of great importance . 66 1 The study of the law is what you very justly term it , copious and generous ; 1 and in ...
... leave a thorn in your mind , which you will , perhaps , never be able to extract or eject . Take this warning ; it is of great importance . 66 1 The study of the law is what you very justly term it , copious and generous ; 1 and in ...
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... Leave it to me . ' However , two of her friends , under her directions , made a new subscription at a crown , the whole price of the work , and in a very little time raised sixty pounds . Mrs. Carter was applied to by Mrs. Williams's ...
... Leave it to me . ' However , two of her friends , under her directions , made a new subscription at a crown , the whole price of the work , and in a very little time raised sixty pounds . Mrs. Carter was applied to by Mrs. Williams's ...
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... leave to make my grateful acknowledgments , and particularly to Sir Francis Lumm , who was pleased to take a great deal of trouble , and even had the minute laid before the king by Lord Caermarthen now Duke of Leeds , then one of his ...
... leave to make my grateful acknowledgments , and particularly to Sir Francis Lumm , who was pleased to take a great deal of trouble , and even had the minute laid before the king by Lord Caermarthen now Duke of Leeds , then one of his ...
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... leave for ever of my dear old friend , Catherine Chambers , who came to live with my mother about 1724 , and has been but little parted from us since . She buried my father , my brother , and my mother . She is now fifty- eight years ...
... leave for ever of my dear old friend , Catherine Chambers , who came to live with my mother about 1724 , and has been but little parted from us since . She buried my father , my brother , and my mother . She is now fifty- eight years ...
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