The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Comprehending an Account of His Studies and Numerous Works, in Chronological Order : a Series of His Epistolary Correspondence and Conversations with Many Eminent Persons : and Various Original Pieces of His Composition, Never Before Published : the Whole Exhibiting a View of Literature and Literary Men in Great-Britain, for Near Half a Century, During which He Flourished : in Three Volumes ...Henry Baldwin, 1793 - Authors, English |
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... Same additions , p . xiv . 1. 7. for flood - gate , read - flood - gate iron ; and upon iron put this note - What the great Twalmley was fo proud of having invented , was neither more nor less than a kind of box - iron for fmoothing ...
... Same additions , p . xiv . 1. 7. for flood - gate , read - flood - gate iron ; and upon iron put this note - What the great Twalmley was fo proud of having invented , was neither more nor less than a kind of box - iron for fmoothing ...
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... same time , the obedience due to them ? We must have recourse to the old Roman expedient in times of confufion , and chufe a dictator . Upon this principle , I give my vote for Mr. Johnson to fill that great and arduous post . And I ...
... same time , the obedience due to them ? We must have recourse to the old Roman expedient in times of confufion , and chufe a dictator . Upon this principle , I give my vote for Mr. Johnson to fill that great and arduous post . And I ...
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... same time , very forry to be poor . Sir , all the arguments which are brought to reprefent poverty as no evil , fhew it to be evidently a great evil . You never find people labouring to con- vince you that you may live very happily upon ...
... same time , very forry to be poor . Sir , all the arguments which are brought to reprefent poverty as no evil , fhew it to be evidently a great evil . You never find people labouring to con- vince you that you may live very happily upon ...
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