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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... tell nothing but the truth , I have ftill kept in my mind . that the whole truth is not always to be expofed . This , however , I have managed fo as to occafion no diminution of the plea- fure which my book should afford ; though ...
... tell nothing but the truth , I have ftill kept in my mind . that the whole truth is not always to be expofed . This , however , I have managed fo as to occafion no diminution of the plea- fure which my book should afford ; though ...
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... tell this again " . " He inculcated upon all his friends the importance of perpetual vigilance against the flighteft degrees of falfehood ; the effect of which , as Sir Joshua Reynolds obferved to me , has been , that all who were of ...
... tell this again " . " He inculcated upon all his friends the importance of perpetual vigilance against the flighteft degrees of falfehood ; the effect of which , as Sir Joshua Reynolds obferved to me , has been , that all who were of ...
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... 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 to say ...
... 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 to say ...
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... tell many things , which , though embellished by their mode of narrative , had their foundation in truth ; but I never remem- ber any thing approaching to this . If he had written it , I fhould have fuppofed fome wag had put the figure ...
... tell many things , which , though embellished by their mode of narrative , had their foundation in truth ; but I never remem- ber any thing approaching to this . If he had written it , I fhould have fuppofed fome wag had put the figure ...
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... tell you , that pleasure is contrary to happiness . Grofs men prefer animal pleasure . So there are men who have preferred living among favages . Now what a wretch must he be , who is content with fuch converfation as can be had among ...
... tell you , that pleasure is contrary to happiness . Grofs men prefer animal pleasure . So there are men who have preferred living among favages . Now what a wretch must he be , who is content with fuch converfation as can be had among ...
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