The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: Including a Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides, Volume 2Harper, 1859 |
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... tion of many minds pointing to one centre . Though few boys make their own exer- cises , yet if a good exercise is given up , out of a great number of boys , it is made by somebody . " " I hate by - roads in education . Educa- tion is ...
... tion of many minds pointing to one centre . Though few boys make their own exer- cises , yet if a good exercise is given up , out of a great number of boys , it is made by somebody . " " I hate by - roads in education . Educa- tion is ...
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... tion should restrain your father from disin- heriting some of the males , does it leave you the power of disinheriting all the females ? " Can the possessor of a feudal estate make any will ? Can he appoint , out of the inheritance ...
... tion should restrain your father from disin- heriting some of the males , does it leave you the power of disinheriting all the females ? " Can the possessor of a feudal estate make any will ? Can he appoint , out of the inheritance ...
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... tion of Tibullus , he thought , was very well done ; but " The Sugar - cane , a Poem , " did not please him ; for , he exclaimed , " What could he make of a sugar - cane ? One might as we write the Parsley - bed , a Poem ; ' or ' The ...
... tion of Tibullus , he thought , was very well done ; but " The Sugar - cane , a Poem , " did not please him ; for , he exclaimed , " What could he make of a sugar - cane ? One might as we write the Parsley - bed , a Poem ; ' or ' The ...
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... tion of our whole civil constitution , should be to this hour vague , obscure , and contradictory ? One law for England , a different one , or rather none at all , for Ireland - and for Scotland the monstrous doctrine mentioned in the ...
... tion of our whole civil constitution , should be to this hour vague , obscure , and contradictory ? One law for England , a different one , or rather none at all , for Ireland - and for Scotland the monstrous doctrine mentioned in the ...
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... tion , " Shal ! all the accumulated evidence of the history of the world - shall the au- thority of what is unquestionably the most ancient writing , be overturned by an un- certain remark such as this ? ” On Monday , March 25 , we ...
... tion , " Shal ! all the accumulated evidence of the history of the world - shall the au- thority of what is unquestionably the most ancient writing , be overturned by an un- certain remark such as this ? ” On Monday , March 25 , we ...
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