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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... once pleafing and painful . Of this truth , the progress of the prefent Work furnishes a ftriking inftance . It was highly gratifying to me that my friend , Sir Joshua Reynolds , to whom it is infcribed , lived to perufe it , and to ...
... once pleafing and painful . Of this truth , the progress of the prefent Work furnishes a ftriking inftance . It was highly gratifying to me that my friend , Sir Joshua Reynolds , to whom it is infcribed , lived to perufe it , and to ...
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... Once when looking into Low Dutch , I found , in a whole page , only one word fimilar to English ; stroem , like stream , and it fig- nified tide . " E. " I remember having feen a Dutch Sonnet , in which I found this word , roefnopies ...
... Once when looking into Low Dutch , I found , in a whole page , only one word fimilar to English ; stroem , like stream , and it fig- nified tide . " E. " I remember having feen a Dutch Sonnet , in which I found this word , roefnopies ...
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... once ; I do not fay you are to make a study of it , and digeft it ; and I believe it to be a true book in his intention . All travellers gene- rally mean to tell truth ; though Thickness ob- ferves , upon Smollet's account of his ...
... once ; I do not fay you are to make a study of it , and digeft it ; and I believe it to be a true book in his intention . All travellers gene- rally mean to tell truth ; though Thickness ob- ferves , upon Smollet's account of his ...
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... once , is not a fufficient proof of honesty ! If a fervant , indeed , were to refift the continued temptation of filver lying in a window , as fome people let it lye , when he is fure his master does not know how much there is of it ...
... once , is not a fufficient proof of honesty ! If a fervant , indeed , were to refift the continued temptation of filver lying in a window , as fome people let it lye , when he is fure his master does not know how much there is of it ...
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... once tried knotting , Dempster's fifter undertook to teach me ; but I could not learn it . " BOSWELL . " So , Sir ; it will be related in pompous narrative , Once for his amusement he tried knotting ; nor did this Her- cules difdain the ...
... once tried knotting , Dempster's fifter undertook to teach me ; but I could not learn it . " BOSWELL . " So , Sir ; it will be related in pompous narrative , Once for his amusement he tried knotting ; nor did this Her- cules difdain the ...
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