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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... thought worthy of particular attention by a perfon of the firft eminence in the age in which he lived , whofe company has been univerfally courted , I am juftified in availing myself of the usual privilege of a Dedication , when I ...
... thought worthy of particular attention by a perfon of the firft eminence in the age in which he lived , whofe company has been univerfally courted , I am juftified in availing myself of the usual privilege of a Dedication , when I ...
Page viii
... thought ridiculously oftentatious . Let me only obferve , as a fpecimen of my trouble , that I have Sometimes been obliged to run half over London , in order to fix a date correctly ; which , when I had accomplished , I well knew would ...
... thought ridiculously oftentatious . Let me only obferve , as a fpecimen of my trouble , that I have Sometimes been obliged to run half over London , in order to fix a date correctly ; which , when I had accomplished , I well knew would ...
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... thought " it would be a wrong 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 ...
... thought " it would be a wrong 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 ...
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... character by looking at his journal , " I next year found the very fame thought in Atterbury's " Sermon on Lady Cutts . " " In this glafs fhe every day dreffed her mind . " + B 4 . This 1778 . Etat . 69 . This is a proof DR . JOHNSON .
... character by looking at his journal , " I next year found the very fame thought in Atterbury's " Sermon on Lady Cutts . " " In this glafs fhe every day dreffed her mind . " + B 4 . This 1778 . Etat . 69 . This is a proof DR . JOHNSON .
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... thought or care . A few men are fufficient to broach falfehoods , which are afterwards innocently diffused by fucceffive relaters " . " Had he lived to read what Sir John Hawkins and Mrs. Piozzi have related concerning himfelf , how ...
... thought or care . A few men are fufficient to broach falfehoods , which are afterwards innocently diffused by fucceffive relaters " . " Had he lived to read what Sir John Hawkins and Mrs. Piozzi have related concerning himfelf , how ...
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