The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.Talboys and Wheeler, 1826 - Authors, English |
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... produced the following answer , which I found on my arrival at Paris . A MR . MR . BOSWELL , CHEZ MR . WATERS , BANQUIER , A PARIS . " DEAR SIR , -Apologies are seldom of any use . We will delay till your arrival the reasons , good or ...
... produced the following answer , which I found on my arrival at Paris . A MR . MR . BOSWELL , CHEZ MR . WATERS , BANQUIER , A PARIS . " DEAR SIR , -Apologies are seldom of any use . We will delay till your arrival the reasons , good or ...
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... produce , I have reason to think he lost by them ; however , they furnished him with no farther assistance towards his housekeeping , than grass for his horses , ( not hay , for that I know he bought , ) and for two cows . Every Monday ...
... produce , I have reason to think he lost by them ; however , they furnished him with no farther assistance towards his housekeeping , than grass for his horses , ( not hay , for that I know he bought , ) and for two cows . Every Monday ...
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... produce in poetical composition . We find in Plaut . Rudens , act iii . scene 4 , Nam huic alteræ patria quæ sit profecto nescio . Plautus is , to be sure , an old comick writer ; but in the days of Scipio and Lelius we find Terent ...
... produce in poetical composition . We find in Plaut . Rudens , act iii . scene 4 , Nam huic alteræ patria quæ sit profecto nescio . Plautus is , to be sure , an old comick writer ; but in the days of Scipio and Lelius we find Terent ...
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... produces ; as to him that should extinguish the tapers of a lighthouse might justly be imputed the cala- mities of shipwrecks . Christianity is the highest perfec- tion of humanity ; and as no man is good but as he wishes the good of ...
... produces ; as to him that should extinguish the tapers of a lighthouse might justly be imputed the cala- mities of shipwrecks . Christianity is the highest perfec- tion of humanity ; and as no man is good but as he wishes the good of ...
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... produced the consequence expected . Let knowledge , therefore , take its turn ; and let the patrons of privation stand a while aside , and admit the operation of positive principles . 66 You will be pleased , sir , to assure the worthy ...
... produced the consequence expected . Let knowledge , therefore , take its turn ; and let the patrons of privation stand a while aside , and admit the operation of positive principles . 66 You will be pleased , sir , to assure the worthy ...
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