The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Including a Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides, Volume 1Harper & Brothers, 1856 |
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... desire to have it ad ledge of our language , by which he was ena- dressed to Lord Chesterfield . I laid hold bled to realize a design of such extent and of this as a pretext for delay , that it might accumulated difficulty . He told me ...
... desire to have it ad ledge of our language , by which he was ena- dressed to Lord Chesterfield . I laid hold bled to realize a design of such extent and of this as a pretext for delay , that it might accumulated difficulty . He told me ...
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... desire , to rectify any important opinion , or fortify any generous resolution , you need [ In the latter years of his life Mr. Burke re- versed the conduct which Goldsmith so elegantly reprehends , and gave up party for what he con ...
... desire , to rectify any important opinion , or fortify any generous resolution , you need [ In the latter years of his life Mr. Burke re- versed the conduct which Goldsmith so elegantly reprehends , and gave up party for what he con ...
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... desires increase ; it is like fire , which must be kindled by some external agent , but which will afterwards propagate itself . When they once desire to learn they will naturally have recourse to the nearest lan- guage by which that desire ...
... desires increase ; it is like fire , which must be kindled by some external agent , but which will afterwards propagate itself . When they once desire to learn they will naturally have recourse to the nearest lan- guage by which that desire ...
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