The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: Comprehending an Account of His Studies, and Numerous Works, in Chronological Order; a Series of His Epistolary Correspondence and Conversations with Many Eminent Persons; and Various Original Pieces of His Composition Never Before Published: the Whole Exhibiting a View of Literature and Literary Men in Great Britain, for Near Half a Century During which He Flourished, Volume 4C. Ewer & T. Bedlington, 1824 - Authors, English |
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... occasion . " Pray ( said he ) , how did your ancestor support his thirty men and thirty horses when he went at a distance from home , in an age when there was hardly any money in circulation ? " I suggested the same difficulty to a ...
... occasion . " Pray ( said he ) , how did your ancestor support his thirty men and thirty horses when he went at a distance from home , in an age when there was hardly any money in circulation ? " I suggested the same difficulty to a ...
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... occasions and on small . Taylor , who praised every thing of his own to excess , in short , " whose geese were all swans , " as the proverb says , expatiated on the ex- cellence of his bull - dog , which he told us , was 66 per- fectly ...
... occasions and on small . Taylor , who praised every thing of his own to excess , in short , " whose geese were all swans , " as the proverb says , expatiated on the ex- cellence of his bull - dog , which he told us , was 66 per- fectly ...
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... occasion to cor- rupt its members ; asserting , that there was hardly ever any question of great importance before Parliament , any question in which a man might not very well vote either upon one side or the other . He said there had ...
... occasion to cor- rupt its members ; asserting , that there was hardly ever any question of great importance before Parliament , any question in which a man might not very well vote either upon one side or the other . He said there had ...
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... occasions . I shall be obliged to you if you will explain it to me ; for it seems wonderful that pleasure should be more vivid at a distance than when near . I wish you may find yourself in a humour to do me this favour ; but I flatter ...
... occasions . I shall be obliged to you if you will explain it to me ; for it seems wonderful that pleasure should be more vivid at a distance than when near . I wish you may find yourself in a humour to do me this favour ; but I flatter ...
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... occasion . The cowardly caution which gave you no pleasure , ' was suggested to me by a friend here , to whom I mentioned the strange story and the detection of its falsity , as an instance how one may be deceived by what is apparently ...
... occasion . The cowardly caution which gave you no pleasure , ' was suggested to me by a friend here , to whom I mentioned the strange story and the detection of its falsity , as an instance how one may be deceived by what is apparently ...
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