The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: Including a Journal of His Tour to the Hebrides, Volume 1Claxton, Remsen, & Haffelfinger, 1878 |
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... labours , I must acknowledge , exhibit a farrago , of which a considerable portion is not devoid of entertainment to the lovers of literary gossiping ; but , besides its being swelled out with long unnecessary extracts from various ...
... labours , I must acknowledge , exhibit a farrago , of which a considerable portion is not devoid of entertainment to the lovers of literary gossiping ; but , besides its being swelled out with long unnecessary extracts from various ...
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... labour which have been devoted to it misemployed , I shall content myself with opposing the authority of the greatest man of any age , Julius Cæsar , of whom Bacon observes , that " in his book of apophthegms which he collected , we see ...
... labour which have been devoted to it misemployed , I shall content myself with opposing the authority of the greatest man of any age , Julius Cæsar , of whom Bacon observes , that " in his book of apophthegms which he collected , we see ...
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... labour , or to my former master . Yet he taught me a great deal . ” " " 66 He thus discriminated to Dr. Percy , bishop of Dromore , his pro- gress at his two grammar - schools : - At one , I learned much in the school , but little from ...
... labour , or to my former master . Yet he taught me a great deal . ” " " 66 He thus discriminated to Dr. Percy , bishop of Dromore , his pro- gress at his two grammar - schools : - At one , I learned much in the school , but little from ...
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... labours , and all his enjoyments , were but tem- porary interruptions of its baleful influence . How wonderful , how unsearchable are , the ways of GOD ! Johnson , who was blest with all the powers of genius aud understanding in a ...
... labours , and all his enjoyments , were but tem- porary interruptions of its baleful influence . How wonderful , how unsearchable are , the ways of GOD ! Johnson , who was blest with all the powers of genius aud understanding in a ...
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... , leaving seve el works of considerable value . A translation into English of his " Institutiones Pathologiæ Medicinalis " appeared in 1779 . their limbs , some to labour under acute diseases , ETAT . 20 . 59 HYPOCHONDRIA .
... , leaving seve el works of considerable value . A translation into English of his " Institutiones Pathologiæ Medicinalis " appeared in 1779 . their limbs , some to labour under acute diseases , ETAT . 20 . 59 HYPOCHONDRIA .
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