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... Questions - Travelling - Boswell's system of Shorthand - Dr . Dodd's " Thoughts in Prison " -Writings of Pennant - Johnson and Dr. Percy - Correspondence- Johnson's high Opinion of Dr. Percy 91 107 132 · 150 • " 168 CHAPTER X .-- 1778 ...
... Questions - Travelling - Boswell's system of Shorthand - Dr . Dodd's " Thoughts in Prison " -Writings of Pennant - Johnson and Dr. Percy - Correspondence- Johnson's high Opinion of Dr. Percy 91 107 132 · 150 • " 168 CHAPTER X .-- 1778 ...
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... question ; because they only had something upon which they could rest as matter of fact . " MURRAY : " It seems to me that we are not angry at a man for controverting an opinion which we believe and value ; we rather pity him ...
... question ; because they only had something upon which they could rest as matter of fact . " MURRAY : " It seems to me that we are not angry at a man for controverting an opinion which we believe and value ; we rather pity him ...
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... question , whether legal redress could be obtained , even when a man's deceased relation was calumniated in a publication . Mr. Murray maintained there should be reparation , unless the author could justify himself by proving the fact ...
... question , whether legal redress could be obtained , even when a man's deceased relation was calumniated in a publication . Mr. Murray maintained there should be reparation , unless the author could justify himself by proving the fact ...
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... question occurred on occasion of an indictment , The King v . Topham , who , as a proprietor of a newspaper entitled " The World , " was found guilty of a libel against Earl Cowper , deceased , because certain injurious charges against ...
... question occurred on occasion of an indictment , The King v . Topham , who , as a proprietor of a newspaper entitled " The World , " was found guilty of a libel against Earl Cowper , deceased , because certain injurious charges against ...
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... question whether a man who had been guilty of vicious actions would do well to force himself into solitude and sadness ? JOHNSON : " No , Sir , unless it prevent him from being vicious again . With some people , gloomy penitence is only ...
... question whether a man who had been guilty of vicious actions would do well to force himself into solitude and sadness ? JOHNSON : " No , Sir , unless it prevent him from being vicious again . With some people , gloomy penitence is only ...
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