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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... attention by a perfon of the firft eminence in the age in which he lived , whofe company has been univerfally courted , I am juftified in availing myself of the usual privilege of a Dedication , when I mention that there has been a long ...
... attention by a perfon of the firft eminence in the age in which he lived , whofe company has been univerfally courted , I am juftified in availing myself of the usual privilege of a Dedication , when I mention that there has been a long ...
Page vii
... thus to share in the pious office of erecting an honourable monument to his memory . The labour and anxious attention with which I have collected and arranged the materials a 4 materials of which thefe volumes are compofed , will hardly.
... thus to share in the pious office of erecting an honourable monument to his memory . The labour and anxious attention with which I have collected and arranged the materials a 4 materials of which thefe volumes are compofed , will hardly.
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... attention , the whole tenor of what he uttered would have been found equally excellent . His ftrong , clear , and animated enforcement of religion , morality , loyalty , and fubordination , while it delights and improves the wife and ...
... attention , the whole tenor of what he uttered would have been found equally excellent . His ftrong , clear , and animated enforcement of religion , morality , loyalty , and fubordination , while it delights and improves the wife and ...
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... attention , prefs the merits of the question upon them . " He faid , as to one point of the merits , that he thought " it would be a wrong thing to deprive the fmall landholders of the privilege of affeffing themselves for making and ...
... attention , prefs the merits of the question upon them . " He faid , as to one point of the merits , that he thought " it would be a wrong thing to deprive the fmall landholders of the privilege of affeffing themselves for making and ...
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... attention to truth , even in the most minute particulars . " Accuftom your children ( faid he ) conftantly to this ; if a thing happened at one window , and they , when relating it , fay that it happened at another , do not let it pafs ...
... attention to truth , even in the most minute particulars . " Accuftom your children ( faid he ) conftantly to this ; if a thing happened at one window , and they , when relating it , fay that it happened at another , do not let it pafs ...
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