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, Volume 3J. Richardson, 1821 |
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... effects . Life cannot subsist in society but by reci- procal concessions . She permitted you to ramble last year , you must permit her now to keep you at home . " Your last reason is so serious , that I am unwill- ing to oppose it . Yet ...
... effects . Life cannot subsist in society but by reci- procal concessions . She permitted you to ramble last year , you must permit her now to keep you at home . " Your last reason is so serious , that I am unwill- ing to oppose it . Yet ...
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... effects they have produced over a great part of the Christian world . I am now writing , and you , when you read this , are reading under the Eye of Omnipresence . " To what degree fancy is to be admitted into re- ligious offices , it ...
... effects they have produced over a great part of the Christian world . I am now writing , and you , when you read this , are reading under the Eye of Omnipresence . " To what degree fancy is to be admitted into re- ligious offices , it ...
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... effect which it had upon Johnson was , to produce this pleasant observation to Mr. Seward , to whom he lent the book : " This fellow must be a blockhead . They don't know how to go about their abuse . Who will read a five shilling book ...
... effect which it had upon Johnson was , to produce this pleasant observation to Mr. Seward , to whom he lent the book : " This fellow must be a blockhead . They don't know how to go about their abuse . Who will read a five shilling book ...
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... effect of a new understanding . " Both at this interview , and in the evening at Mr. Thrale's , where he and Mr. Peter Garrick and I met again , he was vehement on the subject of the Ossian controversy ; observing , " We do not know ...
... effect of a new understanding . " Both at this interview , and in the evening at Mr. Thrale's , where he and Mr. Peter Garrick and I met again , he was vehement on the subject of the Ossian controversy ; observing , " We do not know ...
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... effect : " That the Colonists could with no solidity argue from their not having been taxed while in their infancy , that they should not now be taxed . We do not put a calf into the plow ; we wait till he is an ox . " He said , " They ...
... effect : " That the Colonists could with no solidity argue from their not having been taxed while in their infancy , that they should not now be taxed . We do not put a calf into the plow ; we wait till he is an ox . " He said , " They ...
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