The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Including a Journal of His Tour to the Hebrides, Volume 2H.G. Bohn, 1835 |
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... perhaps , it may not have been the worse for it . During our free and open trade , many words and expressions have been imported , adopted , and naturalised from other languages , which have greatly enriched our own . Let it still pre ...
... perhaps , it may not have been the worse for it . During our free and open trade , many words and expressions have been imported , adopted , and naturalised from other languages , which have greatly enriched our own . Let it still pre ...
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... perhaps , knew nothing of all this , and imagined that Lord Chesterfield declined his acquaintance on some opinion derogatory to his personal pretensions . Mr. Tyers , however , suggests a more 66 in public , I had exhausted all the art ...
... perhaps , knew nothing of all this , and imagined that Lord Chesterfield declined his acquaintance on some opinion derogatory to his personal pretensions . Mr. Tyers , however , suggests a more 66 in public , I had exhausted all the art ...
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... perhaps wanted an antiquary's knowledge of the obsolete words . " His tragedy of the " Siege of Damascus was first represented February 17. 1720 ; and on the same day he died . Pope describes him as " a good humble - spirited man , a ...
... perhaps wanted an antiquary's knowledge of the obsolete words . " His tragedy of the " Siege of Damascus was first represented February 17. 1720 ; and on the same day he died . Pope describes him as " a good humble - spirited man , a ...
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... perhaps , as little envied Johnson , as Johnson him : the goodness and justice of Providence equalise , to a degree not always visible at first sight , the happiness of mankind - nec vixit malè qui natus moriensque fefellit . Meeke died ...
... perhaps , as little envied Johnson , as Johnson him : the goodness and justice of Providence equalise , to a degree not always visible at first sight , the happiness of mankind - nec vixit malè qui natus moriensque fefellit . Meeke died ...
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... perhaps , in England , which was presented me by a learned Swede : but I keep it back , that it may make a set of my own books ( ' ) of the new edition , with which I shall accompany it , more welcome . You will assure him of my ...
... perhaps , in England , which was presented me by a learned Swede : but I keep it back , that it may make a set of my own books ( ' ) of the new edition , with which I shall accompany it , more welcome . You will assure him of my ...
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