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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Page 63
... some thoughts , while the fummer lafted , of being obliged to go to London on fome little bufinefs ; otherwife I fhould certainly have trouble 3 • Etat . 63 . 1772. troubled him with a letter DR . JOHNSON . 63 1772. ...
... some thoughts , while the fummer lafted , of being obliged to go to London on fome little bufinefs ; otherwife I fhould certainly have trouble 3 • Etat . 63 . 1772. troubled him with a letter DR . JOHNSON . 63 1772. ...
Page 65
... Some fuperfluities I have ex- I Given by a lady at Edinburgh . * There had been masquerades in Scotland ; but not for a very long time . 1773 . Etat . 64 . VOL . II . F punged , 1773 . Etat . 64 . punged , and fome DR . JOHNSON . 65 and ...
... Some fuperfluities I have ex- I Given by a lady at Edinburgh . * There had been masquerades in Scotland ; but not for a very long time . 1773 . Etat . 64 . VOL . II . F punged , 1773 . Etat . 64 . punged , and fome DR . JOHNSON . 65 and ...
Page 73
... some strange , uncouth , ill - drest dish : but I found every thing in very good order . We had no other company but Mrs. Williams and a young woman whom I did not know . As a dinner here was confidered as a fingular phænomenon , and as ...
... some strange , uncouth , ill - drest dish : but I found every thing in very good order . We had no other company but Mrs. Williams and a young woman whom I did not know . As a dinner here was confidered as a fingular phænomenon , and as ...
Page 81
... some- thing fo different from what I think right , as to maintain , that a member of parliament fhould go along with his party right or wrong . Now , Sir , this is fo remote from natiye virtue , from fcholaf- tick virtue , that a good ...
... some- thing fo different from what I think right , as to maintain , that a member of parliament fhould go along with his party right or wrong . Now , Sir , this is fo remote from natiye virtue , from fcholaf- tick virtue , that a good ...
Page 98
... Some of the company expreffed a wonder why the authour of fo excellent a book as " The whole Duty of Man " fhould conceal himself . JOHNSON . " There may be different reafons affigned for this , one of which would be very fufficient ...
... Some of the company expreffed a wonder why the authour of fo excellent a book as " The whole Duty of Man " fhould conceal himself . JOHNSON . " There may be different reafons affigned for this , one of which would be very fufficient ...
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