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, Volume 3C. Ewer & T. Bedlington, 1824 |
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... language , in that language they wrote , as letters had never been applied to their own . If there are manuscripts , let them be shewn , with some proof that they are not forged for the occasion . You say many can remember parts of ...
... language , in that language they wrote , as letters had never been applied to their own . If there are manuscripts , let them be shewn , with some proof that they are not forged for the occasion . You say many can remember parts of ...
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... language , will ill compensate for the want of candour , of justice , and of truth . And I shall only add , that , should I hereafter be disposed to read , as I heretofore have done , the most excellent of all your performances , ' THE ...
... language , will ill compensate for the want of candour , of justice , and of truth . And I shall only add , that , should I hereafter be disposed to read , as I heretofore have done , the most excellent of all your performances , ' THE ...
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... language , ' and the last Drapier's Letter . " " 6 From Swift , there was an easy transition to Mr. Thomas Sheridan . - JOHNSON . " Sheridan is a wonder- 1 This doubt has been much agitated on both sides , I think without good reason ...
... language , ' and the last Drapier's Letter . " " 6 From Swift , there was an easy transition to Mr. Thomas Sheridan . - JOHNSON . " Sheridan is a wonder- 1 This doubt has been much agitated on both sides , I think without good reason ...
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... language , reflected an equal degree of lustre upon the University itself . " The many learned labours which have since that time employed the attention and displayed the abilities of that great man , so much to the advancement of liter ...
... language , reflected an equal degree of lustre upon the University itself . " The many learned labours which have since that time employed the attention and displayed the abilities of that great man , so much to the advancement of liter ...
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... languages to be the same , which I do not believe , yet as there is no reason to suppose that the inhabitants of the Highlands and Hebrides ever wrote their native language , it is not to be credited that a long poem was preserved among ...
... languages to be the same , which I do not believe , yet as there is no reason to suppose that the inhabitants of the Highlands and Hebrides ever wrote their native language , it is not to be credited that a long poem was preserved among ...
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