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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... myself have always maintained and am fond to indulge . 66 April 26 , 1752 , being after 12 at Night of the 25th . " O Lord ! Governour of heaven and earth , in " whofe hands are embodied and departed Spirits , " if thou haft ordained ...
... myself have always maintained and am fond to indulge . 66 April 26 , 1752 , being after 12 at Night of the 25th . " O Lord ! Governour of heaven and earth , in " whofe hands are embodied and departed Spirits , " if thou haft ordained ...
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... myself in company , he faid to me , " Bofwell , you often vaunt fo much as to provoke ridicule . You put me in mind of a man who was ftanding in the kitchen of an inn with his back to the fire , and thus accofted the perfon next him ...
... myself in company , he faid to me , " Bofwell , you often vaunt fo much as to provoke ridicule . You put me in mind of a man who was ftanding in the kitchen of an inn with his back to the fire , and thus accofted the perfon next him ...
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... myself that few biographers have entered upon fuch a work as this , with more advantages ; in- dependent of literary abilities , in which I am not vain enough to compare myself with some great names who have gone before me in this kind ...
... myself that few biographers have entered upon fuch a work as this , with more advantages ; in- dependent of literary abilities , in which I am not vain enough to compare myself with some great names who have gone before me in this kind ...
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... myself inclined to pity a criminal , that there is likewise a pity due to the country . ' If we owe regard to the memory of the dead , there is yet more respect to be paid to knowledge , to virtue , and to truth + . ' " " What I ...
... myself inclined to pity a criminal , that there is likewise a pity due to the country . ' If we owe regard to the memory of the dead , there is yet more respect to be paid to knowledge , to virtue , and to truth + . ' " " What I ...
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... to think this a degrading task , and the time and labour which have been devoted to it mifemployed , I fhall con- tent myself with oppofing the authority of the greatest greatest man of any age , JULIUS CAESAR , of DR . JOHNSON , IT.
... to think this a degrading task , and the time and labour which have been devoted to it mifemployed , I fhall con- tent myself with oppofing the authority of the greatest greatest man of any age , JULIUS CAESAR , of DR . JOHNSON , IT.
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