The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: Including a Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides, Volume 2Harper, 1859 |
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... opinion , leaves him far and far behind . Why I did not despatch so short a perusal sooner , when I look back , I am utterly unable to discover ; but human moments are stolen away by a thousand petty impediments which leave no trace be ...
... opinion , leaves him far and far behind . Why I did not despatch so short a perusal sooner , when I look back , I am utterly unable to discover ; but human moments are stolen away by a thousand petty impediments which leave no trace be ...
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... opinion contrary to mine . His lordship obligingly took the trouble to write me a letter , in which he discussed , with legal and historical learning , the points in which I saw much difficulty , maintaining that " the succession of ...
... opinion contrary to mine . His lordship obligingly took the trouble to write me a letter , in which he discussed , with legal and historical learning , the points in which I saw much difficulty , maintaining that " the succession of ...
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... opinion , if that opinion should fi- nally prevail . " Lord Hailes's suspicion that entails are encroachments on the dominion of Provi- dence , may be extended to all hereditary privileges and all permanent institutions ; do not see why ...
... opinion , if that opinion should fi- nally prevail . " Lord Hailes's suspicion that entails are encroachments on the dominion of Provi- dence , may be extended to all hereditary privileges and all permanent institutions ; do not see why ...
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... opinion that there was not so much in his great work , " A Political Survey of Great Britain , " as the world had been taught to expect 5 ; and had said to me that he believed Campbell's disappointment on account of the bad success of ...
... opinion that there was not so much in his great work , " A Political Survey of Great Britain , " as the world had been taught to expect 5 ; and had said to me that he believed Campbell's disappointment on account of the bad success of ...
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... opinion of Johnson appears in one of his letters to Mr. Greaves , dated Feb. 9 , 1760. " I have lately been reading one or two volumes of the Rambler ; who , excepting against some few hardnesses 3 in his manner , and the want of more ...
... opinion of Johnson appears in one of his letters to Mr. Greaves , dated Feb. 9 , 1760. " I have lately been reading one or two volumes of the Rambler ; who , excepting against some few hardnesses 3 in his manner , and the want of more ...
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