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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... himself that ever was given by any man . As an inftance , he tells that the Duke of Perth , then Chancellor of Scotland , preffed him very much to come over to See p . 391 , 392 of Vol . II . the · the Roman - Catholick faith : that he ...
... himself that ever was given by any man . As an inftance , he tells that the Duke of Perth , then Chancellor of Scotland , preffed him very much to come over to See p . 391 , 392 of Vol . II . the · the Roman - Catholick faith : that he ...
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... himself , as it were , instantaneously convinced , and with tears in his eyes ran into the Duke's arms , and embraced the ancient religion ; that he continued very steady in it for fome time , and accompanied his Grace to London one ...
... himself , as it were , instantaneously convinced , and with tears in his eyes ran into the Duke's arms , and embraced the ancient religion ; that he continued very steady in it for fome time , and accompanied his Grace to London one ...
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... himself from uneafinefs for having fhot a man " . Few minds are fit to be trusted with fo • The late Duke of Montrofe was generally faid to have been uneafy on that account ; but I can contradict the report from his Grace's own ...
... himself from uneafinefs for having fhot a man " . Few minds are fit to be trusted with fo • The late Duke of Montrofe was generally faid to have been uneafy on that account ; but I can contradict the report from his Grace's own ...
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... himself as having the charge of a district , over which he is to diffuse civility and happiness . " Next day I found him at home in the forenoon . He praised Delaney's " Obfervations on Swift ; " faid that his book and Lord Orrery's ...
... himself as having the charge of a district , over which he is to diffuse civility and happiness . " Next day I found him at home in the forenoon . He praised Delaney's " Obfervations on Swift ; " faid that his book and Lord Orrery's ...
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... himself : and , let me tell you , that is believing a great deal . ' Chamier once asked him what he meant by flow , the laft word in the first line of The Traveller , Remote , unfriended , melancholy , flow . ' Did he mean tardinefs of ...
... himself : and , let me tell you , that is believing a great deal . ' Chamier once asked him what he meant by flow , the laft word in the first line of The Traveller , Remote , unfriended , melancholy , flow . ' Did he mean tardinefs of ...
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