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... NEVER BEFORE PUBLISHED : THE WHOLE EXHIBITING A VIEW OF LITERATURE AND LITERARY MEN IN GREAT BRITAIN , FOR NEARLY HALF A CENTURY DURING WHICH HE FLOURISHED . BY JAMES BOSWELL , Esq . Quo fit ut OMNIS Votiva pateat veluti descripta ...
... NEVER BEFORE PUBLISHED : THE WHOLE EXHIBITING A VIEW OF LITERATURE AND LITERARY MEN IN GREAT BRITAIN , FOR NEARLY HALF A CENTURY DURING WHICH HE FLOURISHED . BY JAMES BOSWELL , Esq . Quo fit ut OMNIS Votiva pateat veluti descripta ...
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... never querulous , never prone to inveigh against the present times , as is so common when superficial minds are on the fret . On the contrary , he was willing to speak favourably of his own age ; and , indeed , maintained its ...
... never querulous , never prone to inveigh against the present times , as is so common when superficial minds are on the fret . On the contrary , he was willing to speak favourably of his own age ; and , indeed , maintained its ...
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... never happy for the present but when he is drunk . Will you not add , - driving in a post - chaise ? " JOHNSON : " No , Sir ; you are driving rapidly from something , or to something . " -or when Talking of melancholy , he said , " Some ...
... never happy for the present but when he is drunk . Will you not add , - driving in a post - chaise ? " JOHNSON : " No , Sir ; you are driving rapidly from something , or to something . " -or when Talking of melancholy , he said , " Some ...
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... never before knew how much I was respected by these gentlemen ; they told me none of these things . " He had been in company with Omai , a native of one of the South Sea islands , after he had been some time in this country . He was ...
... never before knew how much I was respected by these gentlemen ; they told me none of these things . " He had been in company with Omai , a native of one of the South Sea islands , after he had been some time in this country . He was ...
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... never to be allowed to justify , must often be very oppressive , unless juries , whom I am more and more confirmed in holding to be judges of law as well as of fact , resolutely interpose . Of late , an Act of Parliament has passed ...
... never to be allowed to justify , must often be very oppressive , unless juries , whom I am more and more confirmed in holding to be judges of law as well as of fact , resolutely interpose . Of late , an Act of Parliament has passed ...
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