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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... hope the man may live to repent . " His Grace , upon my prefuming to put the queftion , affured me , that his mind was not at all clouded by what he had thus done in felf - defence . great great a thing . " BOSWELL . " Then , 20 THE LIFE ...
... hope the man may live to repent . " His Grace , upon my prefuming to put the queftion , affured me , that his mind was not at all clouded by what he had thus done in felf - defence . great great a thing . " BOSWELL . " Then , 20 THE LIFE ...
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... hope . Their condition cannot be better . It is rowing without a port . " One of the company afked him the meaning of the expreffion in Juvenal , unius lacerte . JOHNSON . " I think it clear enough ; as much ground as one may have a ...
... hope . Their condition cannot be better . It is rowing without a port . " One of the company afked him the meaning of the expreffion in Juvenal , unius lacerte . JOHNSON . " I think it clear enough ; as much ground as one may have a ...
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... hope that in another Etat . 69 . world the fexes will be equal . " BOSWELL . " That is being too ambitious , Madam . We might as well defire to be equal with the angels . We fhall all , I hope , be happy in a future ftate , but we must ...
... hope that in another Etat . 69 . world the fexes will be equal . " BOSWELL . " That is being too ambitious , Madam . We might as well defire to be equal with the angels . We fhall all , I hope , be happy in a future ftate , but we must ...
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... hope in his death . " JOHNSON . " Yes , Madam ; that is , he shall not have despair . But , confider , his hope of falvation must be founded on the terms on which it is promised , that the mediation of our SAVIOUR fhall be applied to us ...
... hope in his death . " JOHNSON . " Yes , Madam ; that is , he shall not have despair . But , confider , his hope of falvation must be founded on the terms on which it is promised , that the mediation of our SAVIOUR fhall be applied to us ...
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... hope realized ? · I fee my grafs , and my corn , and my trees grow- ing . Now , for instance , I am curious to fee if this froft has not nipped my fruit trees . " JOHN- SON . ( who we did not imagine was attending ) " You find , Sir ...
... hope realized ? · I fee my grafs , and my corn , and my trees grow- ing . Now , for instance , I am curious to fee if this froft has not nipped my fruit trees . " JOHN- SON . ( who we did not imagine was attending ) " You find , Sir ...
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