Life of Samuel Johnson, Ll.D.J.M.Dent, 1927 |
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... reason to be apprehensive about me , because I knew that I myself was well : but we might have a mutual anxiety , with- out the charge of folly ; because each was , in some degree , uncertain as to the condition of the other . I enjoyed ...
... reason to be apprehensive about me , because I knew that I myself was well : but we might have a mutual anxiety , with- out the charge of folly ; because each was , in some degree , uncertain as to the condition of the other . I enjoyed ...
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... reason for their going abroad ; and if it had not been fixed that he should have been one of the party , he would force them out ; but he would not advise them unless his advice was asked , lest they might suspect that he recommended ...
... reason for their going abroad ; and if it had not been fixed that he should have been one of the party , he would force them out ; but he would not advise them unless his advice was asked , lest they might suspect that he recommended ...
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... reason to believe Mr. Murray was very much influenced by what he had heard to - day , in his determin- ation to send his own son to Westminster school . — I have acted in the same manner with regard to my own two sons ; having placed ...
... reason to believe Mr. Murray was very much influenced by what he had heard to - day , in his determin- ation to send his own son to Westminster school . — I have acted in the same manner with regard to my own two sons ; having placed ...
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... reason , " is not altogether with nim ; for it is held in the books , that an attack on the reputation even of a dead man , may be punished as a libel , because tending to a breach of the peace . There is , however , I believe , no ...
... reason , " is not altogether with nim ; for it is held in the books , that an attack on the reputation even of a dead man , may be punished as a libel , because tending to a breach of the peace . There is , however , I believe , no ...
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... reason inseparable from their important function . To establish it , therefore , by statute , is , I think , narrowing its foundation , which is the broad and deep basis of Common Law . Would it not rather weaken the right of primo ...
... reason inseparable from their important function . To establish it , therefore , by statute , is , I think , narrowing its foundation , which is the broad and deep basis of Common Law . Would it not rather weaken the right of primo ...
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