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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... give the strongest teftimony to its fidelity ; but before a fecond edition , which he contributed to improve , could be finished , the world has been deprived of that most valuable man ; a loss of which the regret will be deep , and ...
... give the strongest teftimony to its fidelity ; but before a fecond edition , which he contributed to improve , could be finished , the world has been deprived of that most valuable man ; a loss of which the regret will be deep , and ...
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... give them a story to apply . When the great Duke of Marlborough , accompanied by Lord Cadogan , was one day reconnoitering the army in Flanders , a heavy rain came on , and they both called for their cloaks . Lord Cado- gan's fervant a ...
... give them a story to apply . When the great Duke of Marlborough , accompanied by Lord Cadogan , was one day reconnoitering the army in Flanders , a heavy rain came on , and they both called for their cloaks . Lord Cado- gan's fervant a ...
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... give her a Bible which he had brought from London as a pre- sent to her . He was for a confiderable time occupied in read- ing " Memoires de Fontenelle ; " leaning and swinging upon 1778 . Etat . 69 . upon the low gate DR . JOHNSON . 27.
... give her a Bible which he had brought from London as a pre- sent to her . He was for a confiderable time occupied in read- ing " Memoires de Fontenelle ; " leaning and swinging upon 1778 . Etat . 69 . upon the low gate DR . JOHNSON . 27.
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... give away is not given to those who have the first claim to it . And though I have said that the money circulates back , it is a long time before that happens . Then , Sir , a man of family and eftate ought to confider himself as having ...
... give away is not given to those who have the first claim to it . And though I have said that the money circulates back , it is a long time before that happens . Then , Sir , a man of family and eftate ought to confider himself as having ...
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... give it very completely foon after taking it down . He defied me , as he had once defied an actual fhort - hand writer ; and he made the experiment by reading slowly and distinctly a part of Robertson's " History of America , " while I ...
... give it very completely foon after taking it down . He defied me , as he had once defied an actual fhort - hand writer ; and he made the experiment by reading slowly and distinctly a part of Robertson's " History of America , " while I ...
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