The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.Talboys and Wheeler, 1826 |
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Page 58
... given you pleasure ; but when it is considered how much vanity is excited by praise , I am not sure that it would have done you good . Your history is like other histories , but your journal is in a very high degree curious and de ...
... given you pleasure ; but when it is considered how much vanity is excited by praise , I am not sure that it would have done you good . Your history is like other histories , but your journal is in a very high degree curious and de ...
Page 62
... disregard of his first wife , he said , " Not at all , sir . On the contrary , were he not to marry again , it might be concluded that his first A Wife , a poem , 1614 . wife had given him a disgust to marriage ; but 62 [ 1769 . THE LIFE ...
... disregard of his first wife , he said , " Not at all , sir . On the contrary , were he not to marry again , it might be concluded that his first A Wife , a poem , 1614 . wife had given him a disgust to marriage ; but 62 [ 1769 . THE LIFE ...
Page 63
... given him some un- easiness ; for I remember his observing upon the marriage of one of our common friends , He has done a very foolish thing , sir ; he has married a widow , when he might have had a maid . " 66 We drank tea with Mrs ...
... given him some un- easiness ; for I remember his observing upon the marriage of one of our common friends , He has done a very foolish thing , sir ; he has married a widow , when he might have had a maid . " 66 We drank tea with Mrs ...
Page 102
... given for such indefatigable labour . " Of Dr. Priestley's theological works he remarked , that they tended to unsettle every thing , and yet settled nothing . " He was much affected by the death of his mother , and wrote to me to come ...
... given for such indefatigable labour . " Of Dr. Priestley's theological works he remarked , that they tended to unsettle every thing , and yet settled nothing . " He was much affected by the death of his mother , and wrote to me to come ...
Page 107
... given to Dio- med by his father , when he sent him to the Trojan war , was the noblest exhortation that could be instanced in any heathen writer , and comprised in a single line : Α εν ἀριστεύειν , καὶ ὑπείροχον ἔμμεναι ἄλλων : which ...
... given to Dio- med by his father , when he sent him to the Trojan war , was the noblest exhortation that could be instanced in any heathen writer , and comprised in a single line : Α εν ἀριστεύειν , καὶ ὑπείροχον ἔμμεναι ἄλλων : which ...
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