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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... when I was myself the object of it . I trusted that I fhould be liberally understood , as knowing very well what I was about , and by no means as as fimply unconscious of the pointed effects of the fatire iv DEDICATION :
... when I was myself the object of it . I trusted that I fhould be liberally understood , as knowing very well what I was about , and by no means as as fimply unconscious of the pointed effects of the fatire iv DEDICATION :
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... mean a ftrict attention to truth , even in the most minute particulars . " Accuftom your children ( faid he ) conftantly to this ; if a thing happened at one window , and they , when relating it , fay that it happened at another , do ...
... mean a ftrict attention to truth , even in the most minute particulars . " Accuftom your children ( faid he ) conftantly to this ; if a thing happened at one window , and they , when relating it , fay that it happened at another , do ...
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... the cause of populousness , for it not only carries off a great proportion of the people ; but those who are left are weakened , and unfit for the purposes of increafe . " " R. " Mr. 1778 . R. " Mr. E. I don't mean to 12 THE LIFE OF.
... the cause of populousness , for it not only carries off a great proportion of the people ; but those who are left are weakened , and unfit for the purposes of increafe . " " R. " Mr. 1778 . R. " Mr. E. I don't mean to 12 THE LIFE OF.
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... mean to flatter , but when pofterity reads one of your speeches in Parliament , Etat . 69 . it will be difficult to ... means pure ; but neither is it wholly corrupt , though there is a large proportion of corruption in it . There are ...
... mean to flatter , but when pofterity reads one of your speeches in Parliament , Etat . 69 . it will be difficult to ... means pure ; but neither is it wholly corrupt , though there is a large proportion of corruption in it . There are ...
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... mean to tell truth ; though Thickness ob- ferves , upon Smollet's account of his alarming a whole town in France by firing a blunderbuss , and frightening a French nobleman till he made him tie on his portmanteau , that he would be loth ...
... mean to tell truth ; though Thickness ob- ferves , upon Smollet's account of his alarming a whole town in France by firing a blunderbuss , and frightening a French nobleman till he made him tie on his portmanteau , that he would be loth ...
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