Life of Samuel Johnson, Ll.D.J.M.Dent, 1927 |
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... manner we find them represented in the Poets . The people would not have suffered it . They disputed with good humour upon their fanciful theories , because they were not interested in the truth of them : when a man has nothing to lose ...
... manner we find them represented in the Poets . The people would not have suffered it . They disputed with good humour upon their fanciful theories , because they were not interested in the truth of them : when a man has nothing to lose ...
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... manner ; but his arguments preponderated so much in favour of the benefit which a boy of good parts might receive at one of them , that I have reason to believe Mr. Murray was very much influenced by what he had heard to - day , in his ...
... manner ; but his arguments preponderated so much in favour of the benefit which a boy of good parts might receive at one of them , that I have reason to believe Mr. Murray was very much influenced by what he had heard to - day , in his ...
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... manner , a man who is to get nothing by teaching , will not exert himself . Gresham - College was intended as a place of instruction for London ; able pro- fessors were to read lectures gratis , they contrived to have no scholars ...
... manner , a man who is to get nothing by teaching , will not exert himself . Gresham - College was intended as a place of instruction for London ; able pro- fessors were to read lectures gratis , they contrived to have no scholars ...
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... manner . " I lately , ( said he , ) received a letter from the East - Indies , from a gentle- man whom I formerly knew very well ; he had returned from that country with a handsome fortune , as it was reckoned , before means were found ...
... manner . " I lately , ( said he , ) received a letter from the East - Indies , from a gentle- man whom I formerly knew very well ; he had returned from that country with a handsome fortune , as it was reckoned , before means were found ...
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... manner upon this holy festival , the commemoration of the most joyful event in the history of our world , the resurrection of our LORD and SAVIOUR , who , having triumphed over death and the grave , proclaimed immortality to mankind . I ...
... manner upon this holy festival , the commemoration of the most joyful event in the history of our world , the resurrection of our LORD and SAVIOUR , who , having triumphed over death and the grave , proclaimed immortality to mankind . I ...
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