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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... 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 malignity may sometimes be ...
... 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 malignity may sometimes be ...
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... 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 give the strongest teftimony to its ...
... 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 give the strongest teftimony to its ...
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... truth is , that it is owing to the cloudy darkness of my own mind . I should be glad that I am more ad- vanced in my progrefs of being , fo that I can view Dr. Johnson with a steadier and clearer eye . My diffatisfaction to - night was ...
... truth is , that it is owing to the cloudy darkness of my own mind . I should be glad that I am more ad- vanced in my progrefs of being , fo that I can view Dr. Johnson with a steadier and clearer eye . My diffatisfaction to - night was ...
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... 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 not let it pafs , but ...
... 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 not let it pafs , but ...
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... truth and accuracy , which they would not have poffeffed in the fame degree , if they had not been known to Johnson . Talking of ghofts , he faid , " It is wonderful that five thousand years have now elapfed fince Literary Magazine ...
... truth and accuracy , which they would not have poffeffed in the fame degree , if they had not been known to Johnson . Talking of ghofts , he faid , " It is wonderful that five thousand years have now elapfed fince Literary Magazine ...
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