“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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... less presumptuous car , Wide o'er the fields of glory bear Two coursers of ethereal race , With necks in thunder cloth'd , and long - resounding pace . " - BoswELL . The lifted axe , the agonizing wheel , Luke's iron B 2 AGE 57. ] 3 ...
... less presumptuous car , Wide o'er the fields of glory bear Two coursers of ethereal race , With necks in thunder cloth'd , and long - resounding pace . " - BoswELL . The lifted axe , the agonizing wheel , Luke's iron B 2 AGE 57. ] 3 ...
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... less prac- tice . Now , Sir , the good I can do by my conversation bears the same proportion to the good I can do by my writings , that the practice of a physician , retired to a small town , does to his practice in a great city ...
... less prac- tice . Now , Sir , the good I can do by my conversation bears the same proportion to the good I can do by my writings , that the practice of a physician , retired to a small town , does to his practice in a great city ...
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... less than the tenth part of his income was set apart for charity : at the time of his death , the sum of twenty - five pounds was found , with a direction to be employed in such uses . " He had laid down a plan of living proportioned to ...
... less than the tenth part of his income was set apart for charity : at the time of his death , the sum of twenty - five pounds was found , with a direction to be employed in such uses . " He had laid down a plan of living proportioned to ...
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... less the object will appear . ” ' Why , ” replied the king , " this is not telling an untruth , but telling it clumsily ; for , if that be the case , every one who can look through a microscope will be able to detect him . " 66 " I now ...
... less the object will appear . ” ' Why , ” replied the king , " this is not telling an untruth , but telling it clumsily ; for , if that be the case , every one who can look through a microscope will be able to detect him . " 66 " I now ...
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... less and less , till we are almost unconnected with the world ; and then it must soon be our turn to drop into the grave . There is always this consolation , that we have one Protector , who can never be lost but by our own fault ; and ...
... less and less , till we are almost unconnected with the world ; and then it must soon be our turn to drop into the grave . There is always this consolation , that we have one Protector , who can never be lost but by our own fault ; and ...
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