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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... appeared with peculiar luftre , when tried against those of a writer of fo much fame as Lord Kames , and that too in his Lordship's own department . This masterly argument , after being prefaced and concluded with fome fentences of my ...
... appeared with peculiar luftre , when tried against those of a writer of fo much fame as Lord Kames , and that too in his Lordship's own department . This masterly argument , after being prefaced and concluded with fome fentences of my ...
Page 76
... appearance to do fo . One part or other of his body being more used than the reft , he is in fome degree deformed : but , Sir , that is not luxury . A tailor fits cross - legged ; but that is not luxury . " GOLDSMITH . " Come , you're ...
... appearance to do fo . One part or other of his body being more used than the reft , he is in fome degree deformed : but , Sir , that is not luxury . A tailor fits cross - legged ; but that is not luxury . " GOLDSMITH . " Come , you're ...
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... appeared in arms against him . ” I here fuggested fomething favourable of the Roman Catholicks . TOPLADY . " Does not their invocation of faints fuppofe omniprefence in the faints ? " JOHNSON . " No , Sir ; it supposes only pluri ...
... appeared in arms against him . ” I here fuggested fomething favourable of the Roman Catholicks . TOPLADY . " Does not their invocation of faints fuppofe omniprefence in the faints ? " JOHNSON . " No , Sir ; it supposes only pluri ...
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... appearing to fuch disadvantage as one should hardly have fuppofed poffible in a man of his genius . When his literary reputation had risen deservedly high , and his fociety was much courted , he be- came very jealous of the ...
... appearing to fuch disadvantage as one should hardly have fuppofed poffible in a man of his genius . When his literary reputation had risen deservedly high , and his fociety was much courted , he be- came very jealous of the ...
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... appearance when fawn across . You may either have a little writing- ftandifh made of it , or get it formed into boards . for a treatise on witchcraft , by way of a fuitable binding . " . 970 Mr. BOSWELL to Dr. JOHNSON . Edinburgh , Dec ...
... appearance when fawn across . You may either have a little writing- ftandifh made of it , or get it formed into boards . for a treatise on witchcraft , by way of a fuitable binding . " . 970 Mr. BOSWELL to Dr. JOHNSON . Edinburgh , Dec ...
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