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 60
... language of the schools , Lex non recipit majus et minus , -we may have a law , or we may have no law , but we can- not have half a law . We must either have a rule of action , or be permitted to act by discretion and by chance ...
... language of the schools , Lex non recipit majus et minus , -we may have a law , or we may have no law , but we can- not have half a law . We must either have a rule of action , or be permitted to act by discretion and by chance ...
Page 70
... language of our facred book to ordinary fubjects may tend to leffen our reverence for it . If therefore it be introduced at all , it should be with very great caution , On Thursday , April 8 , I fat a good part of the evening with him ...
... language of our facred book to ordinary fubjects may tend to leffen our reverence for it . If therefore it be introduced at all , it should be with very great caution , On Thursday , April 8 , I fat a good part of the evening with him ...
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... language , the application of the epithets fuggested by me , is the most obvious ; and accordingly my friend himself , in his imitation of the paffage which defcribes Xerxes , has " The waves he lashes , and enchains the wind . " The ...
... language , the application of the epithets fuggested by me , is the most obvious ; and accordingly my friend himself , in his imitation of the paffage which defcribes Xerxes , has " The waves he lashes , and enchains the wind . " The ...
Page 100
... language is Mr. Reed informs me that the Authour of Eugenio , a Wine Merchant at Wrexham in Denbighshire , foon after its publica- tion , viz . 17th May , 1737 , cut his own throat , and that it ap- pears by Swift's Works , that the ...
... language is Mr. Reed informs me that the Authour of Eugenio , a Wine Merchant at Wrexham in Denbighshire , foon after its publica- tion , viz . 17th May , 1737 , cut his own throat , and that it ap- pears by Swift's Works , that the ...
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... language ' . " It is to be ob- ferved , that he here admits an opinion of the human mind being influenced by seasons , which he ridicules in his writings . His progrefs , he fays , " was interrupted by a fever , which , by the imprudent ...
... language ' . " It is to be ob- ferved , that he here admits an opinion of the human mind being influenced by seasons , which he ridicules in his writings . His progrefs , he fays , " was interrupted by a fever , which , by the imprudent ...
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