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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... state , < c ( For things unknown , ' tis ignorance to contemn ; ) " And after having viewed the gaudy bait , " Can boldly fay , the trifle I contemn ; " With fuch a one contented could I live , " Contented could I die ; " - " He then ...
... state , < c ( For things unknown , ' tis ignorance to contemn ; ) " And after having viewed the gaudy bait , " Can boldly fay , the trifle I contemn ; " With fuch a one contented could I live , " Contented could I die ; " - " He then ...
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... state of life ; especially now when their paffage to the Weft - Indies and their treat- ment there is humanely regulated . To abolish that trade would be to shut the gates of mercy on mankind . " Whatever may have paffed elsewhere ...
... state of life ; especially now when their paffage to the Weft - Indies and their treat- ment there is humanely regulated . To abolish that trade would be to shut the gates of mercy on mankind . " Whatever may have paffed elsewhere ...
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... State of Portugal , " and " An Effay on Architecture : " And from the fame Evidence I am confident that he wrote " Further Thoughts on Agriculture , " and " A Differtation on the State of Literature and Authours . " The Differ- tation ...
... State of Portugal , " and " An Effay on Architecture : " And from the fame Evidence I am confident that he wrote " Further Thoughts on Agriculture , " and " A Differtation on the State of Literature and Authours . " The Differ- tation ...
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... State of Affairs , intern . evid . Memoirs of Frederick III . King of Prussia , intern , evid . In the fame Magazine his Reviews are of the following Books : " Birch's Hiftory of the Royal Society . " - " Browne's Christian Morals ...
... State of Affairs , intern . evid . Memoirs of Frederick III . King of Prussia , intern , evid . In the fame Magazine his Reviews are of the following Books : " Birch's Hiftory of the Royal Society . " - " Browne's Christian Morals ...
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... state of being ; but in every picture there fhould be fhade as well as light , and when I delineate him without referve , I do what he himself recommended , both by his precept and his example . " If the biographer writes from perfonal ...
... state of being ; but in every picture there fhould be fhade as well as light , and when I delineate him without referve , I do what he himself recommended , both by his precept and his example . " If the biographer writes from perfonal ...
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