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: the Whole Exhibiting a View of Literature and Literary Men in Great-Britain, for Near Half a Century, During which He Flourished. In Three VolumesHenry Baldwin, 1793 |
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... some distance of time , contemplate with wonder ; and I must be allowed to fuggeft , that the nature of the work , in other refpects , as it confifts of innu- merable detached particulars , all which , even the most minute , I have ...
... some distance of time , contemplate with wonder ; and I must be allowed to fuggeft , that the nature of the work , in other refpects , as it confifts of innu- merable detached particulars , all which , even the most minute , I have ...
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... Some men relate what they think , Etat . 69 . as what they know ; fome men of confused memo- ries and habitual inaccuracy , afcribe to one man what belongs to another ; and fome talk on , with- out thought or care . A few men are ...
... Some men relate what they think , Etat . 69 . as what they know ; fome men of confused memo- ries and habitual inaccuracy , afcribe to one man what belongs to another ; and fome talk on , with- out thought or care . A few men are ...
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... Some do not Etat . 69 . choose to leap ditches and hedges and rifk their necks , or gallop over fteeps , or even to dirty them- felves in bogs and mire . " BOSWELL . " I am glad there are fome good , quiet , moderate political hunters ...
... Some do not Etat . 69 . choose to leap ditches and hedges and rifk their necks , or gallop over fteeps , or even to dirty them- felves in bogs and mire . " BOSWELL . " I am glad there are fome good , quiet , moderate political hunters ...
Page 92
... Some hogfheads , I warrant you . " JOHNSON . " I then had a fevere illness , and left it off , and I have never begun it again . I never felt any dif- ference upon myself from eating one thing rather than another , nor from one kind of ...
... Some hogfheads , I warrant you . " JOHNSON . " I then had a fevere illness , and left it off , and I have never begun it again . I never felt any dif- ference upon myself from eating one thing rather than another , nor from one kind of ...
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... I would not give myfelf the trouble to go in queft of it . " There was no arguing with him at the moment . Some time afterwards he faid , " Lord Marchmont will call 1778 . on me , and then I fhall call K 4 on DR . JOHNSON . 135 1778. ...
... I would not give myfelf the trouble to go in queft of it . " There was no arguing with him at the moment . Some time afterwards he faid , " Lord Marchmont will call 1778 . on me , and then I fhall call K 4 on DR . JOHNSON . 135 1778. ...
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