The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: Including a Journal of His Tour to the Hebrides, Volume 1John W. Lovell Company, 1899 - Authors, English |
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Page 152
... opinion , to interpose my own judgment , and shall therefore endeavour to support what appears to me most consonant to grammar and reason . Ausonius thought that modesty forbade him to plead inability for a task to which Cæsar had ...
... opinion , to interpose my own judgment , and shall therefore endeavour to support what appears to me most consonant to grammar and reason . Ausonius thought that modesty forbade him to plead inability for a task to which Cæsar had ...
Page 242
... opinion : " CASE for the opinion of Mr. Attorney - General . " Mr. Samuel Johnson has lately published A Dictionary of the English Language , ' in which are the following words : " EXCISE , n . 8. A hateful tax levied upon commodities ...
... opinion : " CASE for the opinion of Mr. Attorney - General . " Mr. Samuel Johnson has lately published A Dictionary of the English Language , ' in which are the following words : " EXCISE , n . 8. A hateful tax levied upon commodities ...
Page 268
... opinion that our mental faculties depend , in some degree , upon the weather ; an opinion , which they who have never experienced its truth are not to be envied , and of which he himself could not but be sensible , as the effects of ...
... opinion that our mental faculties depend , in some degree , upon the weather ; an opinion , which they who have never experienced its truth are not to be envied , and of which he himself could not but be sensible , as the effects of ...
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