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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... Because , Sir , ( re- plied the shopkeeper , ) you speak neither English nor Scotch , but fomething different from both , which I conclude is the language of America . " BOSWELL . " It may be of use , Sir , to have a Dictionary to ...
... Because , Sir , ( re- plied the shopkeeper , ) you speak neither English nor Scotch , but fomething different from both , which I conclude is the language of America . " BOSWELL . " It may be of use , Sir , to have a Dictionary to ...
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... because they have agreeable qualities , and they can be useful to us ; but , after death , they can no longer be of ufe to us . We form many friendships by mistake , ima- gining people to be different from what they really are . After ...
... because they have agreeable qualities , and they can be useful to us ; but , after death , they can no longer be of ufe to us . We form many friendships by mistake , ima- gining people to be different from what they really are . After ...
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... because they may be neceffary . Such have been the punishments ufed by the re- fpondent . No fcholar has gone from him either blind or lame , or with any of his limbs or powers injured or impaired . They were irregular , and he punished ...
... because they may be neceffary . Such have been the punishments ufed by the re- fpondent . No fcholar has gone from him either blind or lame , or with any of his limbs or powers injured or impaired . They were irregular , and he punished ...
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... because it is imagined to have the power of healing . To punish fraud when it is detected , is the proper act of vindictive justice ; but to prevent frauds , and make punish- ment unneceffary , is the great employment of legislative ...
... because it is imagined to have the power of healing . To punish fraud when it is detected , is the proper act of vindictive justice ; but to prevent frauds , and make punish- ment unneceffary , is the great employment of legislative ...
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... because it admits , in its original rigour , no gradations of injury ; but keeps guilt and innocence apart , by a diftinct and definite limitation . He that intromits , is cri- minal ; he that intromits not , is innocent . Of the two ...
... because it admits , in its original rigour , no gradations of injury ; but keeps guilt and innocence apart , by a diftinct and definite limitation . He that intromits , is cri- minal ; he that intromits not , is innocent . Of the two ...
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