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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... character , so as to understand his mode of treating his friends , have arraigned my judgement , instead of seeing that I was fenfible of all that they could observe . It is related of the great Dr. Clarke , that when in one of his ...
... character , so as to understand his mode of treating his friends , have arraigned my judgement , instead of seeing that I was fenfible of all that they could observe . It is related of the great Dr. Clarke , that when in one of his ...
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... character of this great man , he recollected his condefcenfion with wonder . He added , that when he was going away , Mr. Johnson presented him with half - a - guinea ; and this , faid Mr. Howard , was at a time when he probably had not ...
... character of this great man , he recollected his condefcenfion with wonder . He added , that when he was going away , Mr. Johnson presented him with half - a - guinea ; and this , faid Mr. Howard , was at a time when he probably had not ...
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... character . I have a wonderful super- ftitious love of myftery ; when , perhaps , the truth is , that it is owing to the cloudy darkness of my own mind . I should be glad that I am more ad- vanced in my progrefs of being , fo that I can ...
... character . I have a wonderful super- ftitious love of myftery ; when , perhaps , the truth is , that it is owing to the cloudy darkness of my own mind . I should be glad that I am more ad- vanced in my progrefs of being , fo that I can ...
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... character by looking at his journal , " I next year found the very fame thought in Atterbury's " Sermon on Lady Cutts . " " In this glafs fhe every day dreffed her mind . " + B 4 . This 1778 . Etat . 69 . This is a proof DR . JOHNSON .
... character by looking at his journal , " I next year found the very fame thought in Atterbury's " Sermon on Lady Cutts . " " In this glafs fhe every day dreffed her mind . " + B 4 . This 1778 . Etat . 69 . This is a proof DR . JOHNSON .
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... character of a Juftice of the peace . A gentleman brought his fervant before him , upon an accufation of having stolen fome money from him ; but it having come out that he had laid it purposely in the fervant's way , in order to try his ...
... character of a Juftice of the peace . A gentleman brought his fervant before him , upon an accufation of having stolen fome money from him ; but it having come out that he had laid it purposely in the fervant's way , in order to try his ...
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