The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D: Including A Journal of His Tour to the Hebrides, Volume 2A. V. Blake, 1844 |
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... consider your friendship as a possession , pamphlet ; and equally certain I desire you which I intend to hold till you take it from to think it , that if I had it , you should im- me , and to lament if ever by my fault Imediately ...
... consider your friendship as a possession , pamphlet ; and equally certain I desire you which I intend to hold till you take it from to think it , that if I had it , you should im- me , and to lament if ever by my fault Imediately ...
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... consider your question upon general principles , and found nothing of much validity that I could oppose to this position : He who inherits a fief unlimited by his ancestors inherits the power of limit- ing it according to his own ...
... consider your question upon general principles , and found nothing of much validity that I could oppose to this position : He who inherits a fief unlimited by his ancestors inherits the power of limit- ing it according to his own ...
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... consider myself as possessed of an idea the more . " ] I ob- served , that Foote entertained us with sto- ries which were not true ; but that , indeed , it was properly not as narratives that Foote's stories pleased us , but as ...
... consider myself as possessed of an idea the more . " ] I ob- served , that Foote entertained us with sto- ries which were not true ; but that , indeed , it was properly not as narratives that Foote's stories pleased us , but as ...
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... consider a writer who endeav- ours to deprive mankind of it as a robber ; he will look upon him as odious , though the infidel might think himself in the right . A robber who reasons as the gang do in the " Beggar's Opera , " who call ...
... consider a writer who endeav- ours to deprive mankind of it as a robber ; he will look upon him as odious , though the infidel might think himself in the right . A robber who reasons as the gang do in the " Beggar's Opera , " who call ...
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... consider conversation as a contest , and such was his notion of Burke as an op ponent . Next morning , Thursday , 21st March , we set out in a post - chaise to pursue our ramble . It was a delightful day , and we rode through Blenheim ...
... consider conversation as a contest , and such was his notion of Burke as an op ponent . Next morning , Thursday , 21st March , we set out in a post - chaise to pursue our ramble . It was a delightful day , and we rode through Blenheim ...
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