The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.Talboys and Wheeler, 1826 |
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Page 11
... allow our fellows to marry , because we consider aca- demical institutions as preparatory to a settlement in the ... allowed to receive but sixpence a lecture from each scholar , they would have been emulous to have had many scholars ...
... allow our fellows to marry , because we consider aca- demical institutions as preparatory to a settlement in the ... allowed to receive but sixpence a lecture from each scholar , they would have been emulous to have had many scholars ...
Page 13
... allowed to justify , must often be very oppressive , unless juries , whom I am more and more confirmed in hold- ing to be judges of law as well as of fact , resolutely interpose . Of late , an act of parliament has passed declaratory of ...
... allowed to justify , must often be very oppressive , unless juries , whom I am more and more confirmed in hold- ing to be judges of law as well as of fact , resolutely interpose . Of late , an act of parliament has passed declaratory of ...
Page 14
... allow of no irregular intercourse whatever between the sexes . " JOHNSON . " To be sure I would not , sir . I would punish it much more than it is done , and so restrain it . In all countries there has been fornication , as in all ...
... allow of no irregular intercourse whatever between the sexes . " JOHNSON . " To be sure I would not , sir . I would punish it much more than it is done , and so restrain it . In all countries there has been fornication , as in all ...
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... allow Mr. Cibber to be put upon the title - page , as the author : by this , a double im- position was intended ; in the first place , that it was the work of a Cibber at all ; and in the second place , that it was the work of old ...
... allow Mr. Cibber to be put upon the title - page , as the author : by this , a double im- position was intended ; in the first place , that it was the work of a Cibber at all ; and in the second place , that it was the work of old ...
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... allow very great merit to his composition . Mr. Murphy said , he remembered when there were several people alive in London , who enjoyed a considerable repu- tation merely from having written a paper in the Spectator . He mentioned ...
... allow very great merit to his composition . Mr. Murphy said , he remembered when there were several people alive in London , who enjoyed a considerable repu- tation merely from having written a paper in the Spectator . He mentioned ...
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