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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... learning , was an excellent Biographer . His contributions to my Collection are highly eftimable ; and as he had a true relish of my " Tour to the Hebrides , " I trust I should now have been gratified with a larger fhare of his kind ...
... learning , was an excellent Biographer . His contributions to my Collection are highly eftimable ; and as he had a true relish of my " Tour to the Hebrides , " I trust I should now have been gratified with a larger fhare of his kind ...
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... learning , ta- lents and accomplishments ; much of which praife I have under their hands to be repofited in my archives at Auchinlech . An honourable and reverend friend speaking of the favourable re- ception of my volumes , even in the ...
... learning , ta- lents and accomplishments ; much of which praife I have under their hands to be repofited in my archives at Auchinlech . An honourable and reverend friend speaking of the favourable re- ception of my volumes , even in the ...
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... a pow- dered wig is afhamed to be illiterate . I believe it is not fo in France . Yet there is , probably , a great deal of learning in France , because they have D 2 fuch 1778 . Etat . 69 . fuch a number of DR . JOHNSON . 35.
... a pow- dered wig is afhamed to be illiterate . I believe it is not fo in France . Yet there is , probably , a great deal of learning in France , because they have D 2 fuch 1778 . Etat . 69 . fuch a number of DR . JOHNSON . 35.
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... learning , a moft retentive memory , of the deepest and most unaffected piety and morality , mingled with those numerous weakneffes and pre- judices which his friends have kindly taken care to draw from their dread abode 7. I brought on ...
... learning , a moft retentive memory , of the deepest and most unaffected piety and morality , mingled with those numerous weakneffes and pre- judices which his friends have kindly taken care to draw from their dread abode 7. I brought on ...
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... learning , in which that motley ludicrous fpecies of compofition may not be found . It is particu- larly droll in Low Dutch . The " Polemomiddinia ” of Drummond of Hawthornden , in which there is a jumble of many languages moulded , as ...
... learning , in which that motley ludicrous fpecies of compofition may not be found . It is particu- larly droll in Low Dutch . The " Polemomiddinia ” of Drummond of Hawthornden , in which there is a jumble of many languages moulded , as ...
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