The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.Talboys and Wheeler, 1826 |
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... common life to be true . Motives are generally unknown . We cannot trust to the characters we find in history , unless when they are drawn by those who knew the persons ; as those , for instance , by Sallust and by lord Clarendon . " He ...
... common life to be true . Motives are generally unknown . We cannot trust to the characters we find in history , unless when they are drawn by those who knew the persons ; as those , for instance , by Sallust and by lord Clarendon . " He ...
Page 81
... not that they can't agree . So the common soldiers , though so much more numerous than their officers , are governed by them for the same reason . " VOL . II . G He said , " Mankind have a strong attachment to ÆTAT . 60. ] 81 DR . JOHNSON .
... not that they can't agree . So the common soldiers , though so much more numerous than their officers , are governed by them for the same reason . " VOL . II . G He said , " Mankind have a strong attachment to ÆTAT . 60. ] 81 DR . JOHNSON .
Page 84
... only upon repentance , and often upon penance also . You think your sins may be forgiven with- out penance , upon repentance alone . " I thus ventured to mention all the common objections against 84 [ 1769 . THE LIFE OF.
... only upon repentance , and often upon penance also . You think your sins may be forgiven with- out penance , upon repentance alone . " I thus ventured to mention all the common objections against 84 [ 1769 . THE LIFE OF.
Page 85
James Boswell. I thus ventured to mention all the common objections against the Roman catholick church , that I might hear so great a man upon them . What he said is here accurately recorded . But it is not improbable that if one had ...
James Boswell. I thus ventured to mention all the common objections against the Roman catholick church , that I might hear so great a man upon them . What he said is here accurately recorded . But it is not improbable that if one had ...
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... common father of all his people . " To this pamphlet , which was at once discovered to be Johnson's , several answers came out , in which care was taken to remind the publick of his former attacks upon government , and of his now being ...
... common father of all his people . " To this pamphlet , which was at once discovered to be Johnson's , several answers came out , in which care was taken to remind the publick of his former attacks upon government , and of his now being ...
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