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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... thing to deprive the fmall landholders of the privilege of affeffing themselves for making and repairing the high roads ; it was deftroying fo B 2 much 1778 . Etat . 69 . 1778 . much liberty , without a good reafon , 1 DR . JOHNSON . 3 ...
... thing to deprive the fmall landholders of the privilege of affeffing themselves for making and repairing the high roads ; it was deftroying fo B 2 much 1778 . Etat . 69 . 1778 . much liberty , without a good reafon , 1 DR . JOHNSON . 3 ...
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... thing , but of the skill in forming it which is fo highly estimated . Every thing that enlarges the sphere of human powers , that shows man he can do what he thought he could not do , is valuable . The firft man who balanced a straw ...
... thing , but of the skill in forming it which is fo highly estimated . Every thing that enlarges the sphere of human powers , that shows man he can do what he thought he could not do , is valuable . The firft man who balanced a straw ...
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... thing . In a cafe which admits of doubt , we try to think on the fide which is for our intereft , and generally bring ourselves to act accordingly . But the fub- ject must admit of diverfity of colouring ; it must receive a colour on ...
... thing . In a cafe which admits of doubt , we try to think on the fide which is for our intereft , and generally bring ourselves to act accordingly . But the fub- ject must admit of diverfity of colouring ; it must receive a colour on ...
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... things could have happened . Travellers must often be mistaken . In every thing , except where men- furation can be applied , they may honeftly differ . There has been , of late , a strange turn in travellers to be displeased . " f E ...
... things could have happened . Travellers must often be mistaken . In every thing , except where men- furation can be applied , they may honeftly differ . There has been , of late , a strange turn in travellers to be displeased . " f E ...
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... the man may live to repent . " His Grace , upon my prefuming to put the queftion , affured me , that his mind was not at all clouded by what he had thus done in felf - defence . great great a thing . " BOSWELL . " Then , 20 THE LIFE OF.
... the man may live to repent . " His Grace , upon my prefuming to put the queftion , affured me , that his mind was not at all clouded by what he had thus done in felf - defence . great great a thing . " BOSWELL . " Then , 20 THE LIFE OF.
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