The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.Talboys & Wheeler, 1826 - Authors, English |
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... given very general satisfaction ; and those who have found most fault with a passage here and there , have agreed that they could not help going through , and being entertained with the whole . I wish , indeed , some few gross expres ...
... given very general satisfaction ; and those who have found most fault with a passage here and there , have agreed that they could not help going through , and being entertained with the whole . I wish , indeed , some few gross expres ...
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... given to the world by the rev . Samuel Hayes , A. M. intern . evid . † Such was the number and variety of the prose works of this extraordinary man , which I have been able to discover , and am at liberty to mention ; but we ought to ...
... given to the world by the rev . Samuel Hayes , A. M. intern . evid . † Such was the number and variety of the prose works of this extraordinary man , which I have been able to discover , and am at liberty to mention ; but we ought to ...
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... given unto man to love and to be wise . " But had he loved less , he would not have laboured so diligently in compiling these memoirs , to which succeeding biographers have been able to add so little ; and had he been more coldly wise ...
... given unto man to love and to be wise . " But had he loved less , he would not have laboured so diligently in compiling these memoirs , to which succeeding biographers have been able to add so little ; and had he been more coldly wise ...
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... given , that every man's life may be best written by himself ; had he employed in the preservation of his own history , that clearness of narra- tion and elegance of language in which he has embalmed so many eminent persons , the world ...
... given , that every man's life may be best written by himself ; had he employed in the preservation of his own history , that clearness of narra- tion and elegance of language in which he has embalmed so many eminent persons , the world ...
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... given upon a former occasion , have been re- ceived with so much approbation , that I have good grounds for supposing that the world will not be indifferent to more ample communications of a similar nature . d Rambler , No. 60 . That ...
... given upon a former occasion , have been re- ceived with so much approbation , that I have good grounds for supposing that the world will not be indifferent to more ample communications of a similar nature . d Rambler , No. 60 . That ...
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