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 Nearly Half a Century During which He Flourished, Volume 1 |
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... tion and entertainment they afford will at once produce reverential gratitude , admiration , and delight . E. M. June 20 , 1804 . ADVERTISEMENT TO THE FIFTH EDITION . In this fifth edition some errors of the press , which had crept into ...
... tion and entertainment they afford will at once produce reverential gratitude , admiration , and delight . E. M. June 20 , 1804 . ADVERTISEMENT TO THE FIFTH EDITION . In this fifth edition some errors of the press , which had crept into ...
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... tion , being convinced that this mode is more lively , and will make my readers better acquainted with him , than even most of those were who actually knew him , but could know him only partially ; whereas there is here an accumulation ...
... tion , being convinced that this mode is more lively , and will make my readers better acquainted with him , than even most of those were who actually knew him , but could know him only partially ; whereas there is here an accumulation ...
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... ; when the truth is , that the appellation of Gentleman , though now lost in the indiscriminate assump- tion of Esquire , was commonly taken by those who could not boast of VOL . I. B gentility . His father was Michael Johnson , a native.
... ; when the truth is , that the appellation of Gentleman , though now lost in the indiscriminate assump- tion of Esquire , was commonly taken by those who could not boast of VOL . I. B gentility . His father was Michael Johnson , a native.
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... tion , gloom , and despair , which made existence misery . From this dismal malady he never afterwards was perfectly relieved ; and all his labours , and all his enjoyments , were but temporary interruptions of its baleful influence ...
... tion , gloom , and despair , which made existence misery . From this dismal malady he never afterwards was perfectly relieved ; and all his labours , and all his enjoyments , were but temporary interruptions of its baleful influence ...
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... tion calls me to look at it , I pronounce him to be mad . " It is a common effect of low spirits or melancholy , to make those who are afflicted with it imagine that they are actually suffering those evils which happen to be most ...
... tion calls me to look at it , I pronounce him to be mad . " It is a common effect of low spirits or melancholy , to make those who are afflicted with it imagine that they are actually suffering those evils which happen to be most ...
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