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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... letter , not knowing where it will find you , to thank you for your very agreeable Tour , ' which I found here on my return from the country , and in which you have depicted our friend fo perfectly to my fancy , in every attitude ...
... letter , not knowing where it will find you , to thank you for your very agreeable Tour , ' which I found here on my return from the country , and in which you have depicted our friend fo perfectly to my fancy , in every attitude ...
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... letter to you upon the fubject of the unlucky conteft of that day , and you will be kind enough to put in writing as an answer to that letter , what you have now faid , and as Lord Percy is to dine with us at General Paoli's foon , I ...
... letter to you upon the fubject of the unlucky conteft of that day , and you will be kind enough to put in writing as an answer to that letter , what you have now faid , and as Lord Percy is to dine with us at General Paoli's foon , I ...
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... letter in his praife , of which I gave him a copy . He faid , " I would rather have this than degrees from all the ... letters , " That he did not choose they should be published in his life- time ; but had no objection to their ...
... letter in his praife , of which I gave him a copy . He faid , " I would rather have this than degrees from all the ... letters , " That he did not choose they should be published in his life- time ; but had no objection to their ...
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... Letter 69 of Moutesquieu's Lettres Perfannes ; and the late Mr. John Palmer of Iflington's Answer to Dr. Priestley's mechanical arguments for what he abfurdly calls " Philofophical Neceffity . " fure 1778. fure of itself is not a vice ...
... Letter 69 of Moutesquieu's Lettres Perfannes ; and the late Mr. John Palmer of Iflington's Answer to Dr. Priestley's mechanical arguments for what he abfurdly calls " Philofophical Neceffity . " fure 1778. fure of itself is not a vice ...
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... his 9 See " A Letter to W. Mafon , A. M. from J. Murray , Bookfeller in London ; " zd edition , p . 20 . displeasure " 1778 . Etat . 69 . 1778. difpleasure at Mr. Mafon's conduct very strongly ; Ætat DR . JOHNSON . 79.
... his 9 See " A Letter to W. Mafon , A. M. from J. Murray , Bookfeller in London ; " zd edition , p . 20 . displeasure " 1778 . Etat . 69 . 1778. difpleasure at Mr. Mafon's conduct very strongly ; Ætat DR . JOHNSON . 79.
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