The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.Talboys and Wheeler, 1826 - Authors, English |
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Page 4
... less presumptuous car Wide o'er the fields of glory bear Two coursers of ethereal race , With necks in thunder cloth'd , and long resounding pace . Ode on the Progress of Poesy . - Boswell . as much perplexed by Luke as by Lydiat in The ...
... less presumptuous car Wide o'er the fields of glory bear Two coursers of ethereal race , With necks in thunder cloth'd , and long resounding pace . Ode on the Progress of Poesy . - Boswell . as much perplexed by Luke as by Lydiat in The ...
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... less practice . Now , sir , the good I can do by my conversation bears the same proportion to the good I can do by my writings , that the practice of a physician retired to a small town , does to his practice in a great city . " BOSWELL ...
... less practice . Now , sir , the good I can do by my conversation bears the same proportion to the good I can do by my writings , that the practice of a physician retired to a small town , does to his practice in a great city . " BOSWELL ...
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... less than the tenth part of his income was set apart for charity : at the time of his death , the sum of twenty - five pounds was found , with a direction to be employed in such uses . " He had laid down a plan of living proportioned to ...
... less than the tenth part of his income was set apart for charity : at the time of his death , the sum of twenty - five pounds was found , with a direction to be employed in such uses . " He had laid down a plan of living proportioned to ...
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... less the object will appear . " " Why , " replied the king , " this is not only telling an untruth , but telling it clumsily ; for , if that be the case , every one who can look through a microscope will be able to detect him . " " I ...
... less the object will appear . " " Why , " replied the king , " this is not only telling an untruth , but telling it clumsily ; for , if that be the case , every one who can look through a microscope will be able to detect him . " " I ...
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... less and less , till we are almost un- connected with the world ; and then it must soon be our turn to drop into the grave . There is always this con- solation , that we have one Protector who can never be lost but by our own fault ...
... less and less , till we are almost un- connected with the world ; and then it must soon be our turn to drop into the grave . There is always this con- solation , that we have one Protector who can never be lost but by our own fault ...
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