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 54
... leave the community without law . It is to withdraw the direction of that publick wisdom , by which the deficiencies of private understanding are to be fupplied . It is to fuffer the rafh and ignorant to act at difcretion , and then to ...
... leave the community without law . It is to withdraw the direction of that publick wisdom , by which the deficiencies of private understanding are to be fupplied . It is to fuffer the rafh and ignorant to act at difcretion , and then to ...
Page 60
... leave fraud and fraudulent in- tromiffion no future hope of impunity or escape . " With fuch comprehenfion of mind , and fuch clearness of penetration , did he thus treat a fubject altogether new to him , without any other pre- paration ...
... leave fraud and fraudulent in- tromiffion no future hope of impunity or escape . " With fuch comprehenfion of mind , and fuch clearness of penetration , did he thus treat a fubject altogether new to him , without any other pre- paration ...
Page 71
... leave him ; and when I looked at my watch , and told him it was twelve o'clock , he cried , " What's that to you and me ? " and or- dered Frank to tell Mrs. Williams that we were coming to drink tea with her , which we did . It was ...
... leave him ; and when I looked at my watch , and told him it was twelve o'clock , he cried , " What's that to you and me ? " and or- dered Frank to tell Mrs. Williams that we were coming to drink tea with her , which we did . It was ...
Page 104
... leave both riches and power where it finds them ; and muft often leave riches with the covetous , and power with the cruel . Convenience may be a But rule 1773 . rule in little things , where no other 104 THE LIFE OF.
... leave both riches and power where it finds them ; and muft often leave riches with the covetous , and power with the cruel . Convenience may be a But rule 1773 . rule in little things , where no other 104 THE LIFE OF.
Page 123
... leave of him . The jealoufy and envy which , though poffeffed of many most amiable qualities , he frankly avowed , broke out violently at this interview . Upon an- other occafion , when Goldfinith confeffed himself to be of an envious ...
... leave of him . The jealoufy and envy which , though poffeffed of many most amiable qualities , he frankly avowed , broke out violently at this interview . Upon an- other occafion , when Goldfinith confeffed himself to be of an envious ...
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