The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Together with A Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides, Volume 1Bickers and Son, 1874 - Authors, English |
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Page ix
... doubt that the third edition would have differed by as large a degree from the second as the second did from , the first . At his death , when the revision was scarcely begun , Mr. Malone took up the task . As he had diligently co ...
... doubt that the third edition would have differed by as large a degree from the second as the second did from , the first . At his death , when the revision was scarcely begun , Mr. Malone took up the task . As he had diligently co ...
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... doubt , that he was privileged to carry out , after the author's death , the control he had been allowed to exercise during the author's life . Accordingly , in each posthumous edition , new letters were inserted as they came to hand ...
... doubt , that he was privileged to carry out , after the author's death , the control he had been allowed to exercise during the author's life . Accordingly , in each posthumous edition , new letters were inserted as they came to hand ...
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... doubt , if his discourse at other periods had been collected with the same attention , the whole tenor of what he uttered would have been found equally excellent . His strong , clear , and animated enforcement of religion , mo- rality ...
... doubt , if his discourse at other periods had been collected with the same attention , the whole tenor of what he uttered would have been found equally excellent . His strong , clear , and animated enforcement of religion , mo- rality ...
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... doubt I should not have been very prompt to gratify Sir John Hawkins with any compliment in his life- time , I do now frankly acknowledge , that , in my opinion , his volume , however inadequate and improper as a life of Dr. Johnson ...
... doubt I should not have been very prompt to gratify Sir John Hawkins with any compliment in his life- time , I do now frankly acknowledge , that , in my opinion , his volume , however inadequate and improper as a life of Dr. Johnson ...
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... doubt . For , there is no instance of any man , whose history has been minutely related , that did not in every part of life discover the same proportion of intellectual vigour . " In all such investigations it is certainly unwise to ...
... doubt . For , there is no instance of any man , whose history has been minutely related , that did not in every part of life discover the same proportion of intellectual vigour . " In all such investigations it is certainly unwise to ...
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