The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: With Murphy's Essay, Volume 2Cowie, 1825 |
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... own opinion universally prevalent , and are inclined to impute uncertainty and hesitation to want of honesty then than of knowledge . I may , perhaps , therefore , reproached by my lively correspondent , when it shall be.
... own opinion universally prevalent , and are inclined to impute uncertainty and hesitation to want of honesty then than of knowledge . I may , perhaps , therefore , reproached by my lively correspondent , when it shall be.
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... perhaps sometimes overborne by his avarice of the Homeric treasures : and , for fear of suffering a sparkling ornament to be lost , he has inserted it where it cannot shine with its original splendour . When Ulysses visited the infernal ...
... perhaps sometimes overborne by his avarice of the Homeric treasures : and , for fear of suffering a sparkling ornament to be lost , he has inserted it where it cannot shine with its original splendour . When Ulysses visited the infernal ...
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... perhaps one of the most pleasing vehicles of instruction . But I am very far from extending the same respect to his diction or his stanza . His style was in his own time allowed to be vicious , so darkened with old words and ...
... perhaps one of the most pleasing vehicles of instruction . But I am very far from extending the same respect to his diction or his stanza . His style was in his own time allowed to be vicious , so darkened with old words and ...
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... perhaps sufficiently rapid , being stopped too frequently by particularities , which , though they might strike the authour who was present at the transactions , will not equally detain the attention of posterity . But his ignorance or ...
... perhaps sufficiently rapid , being stopped too frequently by particularities , which , though they might strike the authour who was present at the transactions , will not equally detain the attention of posterity . But his ignorance or ...
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... perhaps endeavour to recommend in a future essay ; but if there be any ap- prehension not apt to admit unaccustomed ideas , or any attention so stubborn and inflexible , as not easily to comply with new directions , even these ...
... perhaps endeavour to recommend in a future essay ; but if there be any ap- prehension not apt to admit unaccustomed ideas , or any attention so stubborn and inflexible , as not easily to comply with new directions , even these ...
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