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 97
... reason to think that he had read Spencer . " A propofition which had been agitated , that monuments to eminent perfons fhould , for the time to come , be erected in St. Paul's church as well as in Westminster - abbey , was mentioned ...
... reason to think that he had read Spencer . " A propofition which had been agitated , that monuments to eminent perfons fhould , for the time to come , be erected in St. Paul's church as well as in Westminster - abbey , was mentioned ...
Page 107
... reasons of rejection . An- ger is excited principally by pride . The pride of a common man is very little exasperated by the fuppofed ufurpation of an acknowledged fuperiour . He bears only his little fhare of a general evil , and ...
... reasons of rejection . An- ger is excited principally by pride . The pride of a common man is very little exasperated by the fuppofed ufurpation of an acknowledged fuperiour . He bears only his little fhare of a general evil , and ...
Page 122
... reason and the interests of learning are against it ; for were it to be perpetual , no book , however useful , could be univerfally diffused amongst mankind , fhould the proprietor take it into his head to reftrain its circulation . No ...
... reason and the interests of learning are against it ; for were it to be perpetual , no book , however useful , could be univerfally diffused amongst mankind , fhould the proprietor take it into his head to reftrain its circulation . No ...
Page 125
... reason that we could perceive , at our friend's making his will ; called him the teftator , and added , " I dare fay , he thinks he has done a mighty thing . He won't stay till he gets home to his feat in the coun- try , to produce this ...
... reason that we could perceive , at our friend's making his will ; called him the teftator , and added , " I dare fay , he thinks he has done a mighty thing . He won't stay till he gets home to his feat in the coun- try , to produce this ...
Page 166
... DEAR SIR , " YOU fent me a cafe to confider , in which I have no facts but what are against us , nor any principles on which to reason . It is vain to try to to write thus without materials . The fact seems to 166 THE LIFE OF.
... DEAR SIR , " YOU fent me a cafe to confider , in which I have no facts but what are against us , nor any principles on which to reason . It is vain to try to to write thus without materials . The fact seems to 166 THE LIFE OF.
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