Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.H. Washbourne, 1857 - 580 pages |
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Page 47
... doubt whether I should not attribute to myself too much in attempting to decide them , and whe- ther my province was to extend beyond the proposition of the question , and the display of the suffrages on each side ; but I have been ...
... doubt whether I should not attribute to myself too much in attempting to decide them , and whe- ther my province was to extend beyond the proposition of the question , and the display of the suffrages on each side ; but I have been ...
Page 108
... doubt of the justice of his animadversion upon his old acquaintance and pupil . * I now felt myself much mor- tified , and began to think that the hope which I had long indulged of obtaining his acquaintance was blasted . And , in truth ...
... doubt of the justice of his animadversion upon his old acquaintance and pupil . * I now felt myself much mor- tified , and began to think that the hope which I had long indulged of obtaining his acquaintance was blasted . And , in truth ...
Page 353
... Doubts on the Abolition of the Slave Trade . " To Mr. Ranby's " Doubts , " I will apply Lord Chancellor Hardwicke's expression in praise of a Scotch Law Book , called " Dirleton's Doubts ; " " His Doubts ( said his Lordship ) are better ...
... Doubts on the Abolition of the Slave Trade . " To Mr. Ranby's " Doubts , " I will apply Lord Chancellor Hardwicke's expression in praise of a Scotch Law Book , called " Dirleton's Doubts ; " " His Doubts ( said his Lordship ) are better ...
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