Life of Samuel Johnson, Ll.D.J.M.Dent, 1927 |
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... instances of ladies being ruined , by having injudiciously sunk their fortunes for high annuities , which , after a few years , ceased to be paid , in consequence of the ruined circumstances of the borrower . " Mrs. Williams was very ...
... instances of ladies being ruined , by having injudiciously sunk their fortunes for high annuities , which , after a few years , ceased to be paid , in consequence of the ruined circumstances of the borrower . " Mrs. Williams was very ...
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... instance of partiality . " He men- tioned what had passed upon the subject of the Monthly and Critical Reviews , in the conversation with which his Majesty had honoured him . He expatiated a little more on them this evening . " The ...
... instance of partiality . " He men- tioned what had passed upon the subject of the Monthly and Critical Reviews , in the conversation with which his Majesty had honoured him . He expatiated a little more on them this evening . " The ...
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... instance , ambition is a noble passion ; but by seeing upon the stage , that a man who is so excessively ambitious as to raise himself by injustice , is punished , we are terrified at the fatal consequences of such a passion . In the ...
... instance , ambition is a noble passion ; but by seeing upon the stage , that a man who is so excessively ambitious as to raise himself by injustice , is punished , we are terrified at the fatal consequences of such a passion . In the ...
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... instance , whether propriè is meant to signify in an appropriate manner , as Dr. Johnson here understands it , or , as it is often used by Cicero , with propriety , or elegantly . In short , it is a rare instance of a defect in ...
... instance , whether propriè is meant to signify in an appropriate manner , as Dr. Johnson here understands it , or , as it is often used by Cicero , with propriety , or elegantly . In short , it is a rare instance of a defect in ...
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... instances he appears to have trusted too much to Buffon , who , with all his theoretical ingenuity and extraordinary eloquence , I suspect had little actual information in the science on which he wrote so admirably . For instance , he ...
... instances he appears to have trusted too much to Buffon , who , with all his theoretical ingenuity and extraordinary eloquence , I suspect had little actual information in the science on which he wrote so admirably . For instance , he ...
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