The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.Macmillan, 1912 |
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... known that they intrigued with France ? Depend upon it , Sir , he who does what he is afraid should be known , has something rotten about him . This Dalrymple seems to be an honest fellow ; for he tells equally what makes against both ...
... known that they intrigued with France ? Depend upon it , Sir , he who does what he is afraid should be known , has something rotten about him . This Dalrymple seems to be an honest fellow ; for he tells equally what makes against both ...
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... known . " He talked with an approbation of an intended edition of " The Spectator , " with notes ; two volumes of which had been prepared by a gentleman eminent in the literary world , and the materials which he had collected for the ...
... known . " He talked with an approbation of an intended edition of " The Spectator , " with notes ; two volumes of which had been prepared by a gentleman eminent in the literary world , and the materials which he had collected for the ...
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... known of his writings , was published in 1751 ; a Philosophical Inquiry concerning Language and Uni- versal Grammar , written , says Coleridge , " with the precision of Aristotle and the elegance of Quintilian . " In 1761 he entered ...
... known of his writings , was published in 1751 ; a Philosophical Inquiry concerning Language and Uni- versal Grammar , written , says Coleridge , " with the precision of Aristotle and the elegance of Quintilian . " In 1761 he entered ...
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... known to come from a man whose profession was theology . He may have been a man whose practice was not suitable to his principles , so that his character might injure the effect of his book , which he had written in a season of ...
... known to come from a man whose profession was theology . He may have been a man whose practice was not suitable to his principles , so that his character might injure the effect of his book , which he had written in a season of ...
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... known , who did not at every other sentence bring in some other Scotchman . " to say , men . We drank tea with Mrs. Williams . I introduced a question which has been much agitated in the Church of Scotland , whether the claim of lay ...
... known , who did not at every other sentence bring in some other Scotchman . " to say , men . We drank tea with Mrs. Williams . I introduced a question which has been much agitated in the Church of Scotland , whether the claim of lay ...
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