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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... houses ; however , faid he , I do not find that he is efteemed a man of much profef- fional learning , or a liberal patron of it ; -yet , it is well , where a man poffeffes any ftrong pofitive excellence . - Few have all kinds of merit ...
... houses ; however , faid he , I do not find that he is efteemed a man of much profef- fional learning , or a liberal patron of it ; -yet , it is well , where a man poffeffes any ftrong pofitive excellence . - Few have all kinds of merit ...
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... shut the gates of mercy on mankind . " Whatever may have paffed elsewhere concern- ing it , The HOUSE OF LORDS is wife and inde- pendent : * b Intami- Intaminatis fulget honoribus ; Nec fumit aut ponit fecures Arbitrio DR . JOHNSON . #xvii.
... shut the gates of mercy on mankind . " Whatever may have paffed elsewhere concern- ing it , The HOUSE OF LORDS is wife and inde- pendent : * b Intami- Intaminatis fulget honoribus ; Nec fumit aut ponit fecures Arbitrio DR . JOHNSON . #xvii.
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... house or your room , " My Second expreffes a Syrian perfume . 8 " My whole is a man in whose converse is shar'd , " The strength of a Bar , and the sweetness of Nard . " • Bar . 7 Nard . -8 Barnard . Johnfon Johnson asked Richard Owen ...
... house or your room , " My Second expreffes a Syrian perfume . 8 " My whole is a man in whose converse is shar'd , " The strength of a Bar , and the sweetness of Nard . " • Bar . 7 Nard . -8 Barnard . Johnfon Johnson asked Richard Owen ...
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... 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 work has honoured and perpetuated his ancestry , A ...
... 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 work has honoured and perpetuated his ancestry , A ...
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... Defence of a Schoolmafter ; dictated to me for the House of Lords , acknowl . Argument in Support of the Law of Vicious Intromion ; dictated dictated to me for the Court of Seffion in Scotland OF DR . JOHNSON'S PROSE WORKS .
... Defence of a Schoolmafter ; dictated to me for the House of Lords , acknowl . Argument in Support of the Law of Vicious Intromion ; dictated dictated to me for the Court of Seffion in Scotland OF DR . JOHNSON'S PROSE WORKS .
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Common terms and phrases
acknowl Ætat affiftance afterwards againſt almoſt anſwer aſked Atat authour becauſe beſt Biſhop bookfeller circumftance confider confiderable converfation DEAR SIR defire Dictionary diftinguiſhed Edward Cave Effay Engliſh Etat expreffed faid fame fatire favour feemed fhall fhew fhould fince firft firſt fome fometimes foon fpirit ftrong ftudied fubject fuch fuffer fuppofe fure Garrick gentleman Gentleman's Magazine happineſs hiftory himſelf honour houſe inftance Johnſon juſt kindneſs laft Langton laſt lefs letter Lichfield literary London Lucy Porter mafter Mifs mind moft moſt muſt myſelf never obferved occafion Oxford paffage paffed Pembroke College perfon pleaſed pleaſure poem praiſe prefent propofed publick publiſhed racter Rambler reaſon refpect ſaid SAMUEL JOHNSON ſay ſchool ſeem ſeveral ſhall ſhe Sir John Hawkins ſome ſtate ſtudy ſuppoſed theſe thofe THOMAS WARTON thoſe thought tion told tranflation Univerſity uſed verfes vifit whofe whoſe wife wiſh write wrote