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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... some whofe bard minds I never fhall envy , may attack as fuperftitious , will I am fure endear him more to numbers of good men . I have an additional , and that a perfonal motive for prefenting it , because it Janctions what I myself ...
... some whofe bard minds I never fhall envy , may attack as fuperftitious , will I am fure endear him more to numbers of good men . I have an additional , and that a perfonal motive for prefenting it , because it Janctions what I myself ...
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... some way forfeited before they can be justly taken away : That the defendant has by any act forfeited the rights of nature we require to be proved ; and if no proof of fuch forfeiture can be given , we doubt not but the justice of the ...
... some way forfeited before they can be justly taken away : That the defendant has by any act forfeited the rights of nature we require to be proved ; and if no proof of fuch forfeiture can be given , we doubt not but the justice of the ...
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... Some have affected to laugh at the history of the house of Yvery : it would be well if many others would tranfmit their pedigrees to pofterity , with the fame accuracy and generous zeal , with which the Noble Lord , who compiled that ...
... Some have affected to laugh at the history of the house of Yvery : it would be well if many others would tranfmit their pedigrees to pofterity , with the fame accuracy and generous zeal , with which the Noble Lord , who compiled that ...
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... Some further Particulars in Relation to the Cafe of Admiral Byng , by a Gentleman of Ox- ford , " acknowl . Mr. Jonas Hanway having written an angry Answer to the Review of his Effay on Tea , Johnson in the fame Collection made a Reply ...
... Some further Particulars in Relation to the Cafe of Admiral Byng , by a Gentleman of Ox- ford , " acknowl . Mr. Jonas Hanway having written an angry Answer to the Review of his Effay on Tea , Johnson in the fame Collection made a Reply ...
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... Some of the trustees at that period were worthy gentle . men of the neighbourhood of Litchfield . Appleby itself is not far from the neighbourhood of Litchfield . The falary , the de- gree requifite , together with the time of eledim ...
... Some of the trustees at that period were worthy gentle . men of the neighbourhood of Litchfield . Appleby itself is not far from the neighbourhood of Litchfield . The falary , the de- gree requifite , together with the time of eledim ...
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