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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... 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 . " E. " I ...
... 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 . " E. " I ...
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... Etat , 69 . only because he has lived in a large place : but what is got by books and thinking is preserved in a nar- row place as well as in a large place . A man cannot know modes of life as well in Minorca as in London ; but he may ...
... Etat , 69 . only because he has lived in a large place : but what is got by books and thinking is preserved in a nar- row place as well as in a large place . A man cannot know modes of life as well in Minorca as in London ; but he may ...
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... Etat . 69 . well known where he was not orthodox , which was upon the doctrine of the Trinity , as to which he is a condemned heretick ; fo one is aware of it . " BOSWELL . " I like Ogden's fermons on prayer very much , both for ...
... Etat . 69 . well known where he was not orthodox , which was upon the doctrine of the Trinity , as to which he is a condemned heretick ; fo one is aware of it . " BOSWELL . " I like Ogden's fermons on prayer very much , both for ...
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... Etat . 69 . derations , he faid , " He must not doubt about it . When one doubts as to pleafure , we know what will be the conclufion . I now no more think of drinking wine , than a horfe does . The wine upon the table is no more for me ...
... Etat . 69 . derations , he faid , " He must not doubt about it . When one doubts as to pleafure , we know what will be the conclufion . I now no more think of drinking wine , than a horfe does . The wine upon the table is no more for me ...
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... Etat . 69 . creeping worm . " Johnfon laughed loud and long at this expanfion and illuftration of what he him- felf had told me . We dined together with Mr. Scott ( now Sir William Scott , his Majefty's Advocate ) at his chambers in the ...
... Etat . 69 . creeping worm . " Johnfon laughed loud and long at this expanfion and illuftration of what he him- felf had told me . We dined together with Mr. Scott ( now Sir William Scott , his Majefty's Advocate ) at his chambers in the ...
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