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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... talk the language of a savage : what , Sir ? would you prevent any people from feeding themselves if by any honeft means they can do it . " It being mentioned , that Garrick affifted Dr. Brown , the authour of the Eftimate , in fome ...
... talk the language of a savage : what , Sir ? would you prevent any people from feeding themselves if by any honeft means they can do it . " It being mentioned , that Garrick affifted Dr. Brown , the authour of the Eftimate , in fome ...
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... Talking of the Irish clergy , he said , Swift . was a man of great parts , and the inftrument of much good to his country . - Berkeley was a pro- found fcholar , as well as a man of fine imagination ; but Ufher , he said , was the great ...
... Talking of the Irish clergy , he said , Swift . was a man of great parts , and the inftrument of much good to his country . - Berkeley was a pro- found fcholar , as well as a man of fine imagination ; but Ufher , he said , was the great ...
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... TALKING reverently of the SUPREME BEING , he uttered these fentences : " Do you confider , Sir ? " In the first place the idea of a CREATOR must be such as that he has a power to unmake or annihilate his creature . * " Then it cannot be ...
... TALKING reverently of the SUPREME BEING , he uttered these fentences : " Do you confider , Sir ? " In the first place the idea of a CREATOR must be such as that he has a power to unmake or annihilate his creature . * " Then it cannot be ...
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... talks " of his misfortunes , there is fomething in them that is not difagreeable to him - for where there is nothing but pure mifery , there never is any recourse to the mention of it.- “ A man must be a poor beast that fhould read no ...
... talks " of his misfortunes , there is fomething in them that is not difagreeable to him - for where there is nothing but pure mifery , there never is any recourse to the mention of it.- “ A man must be a poor beast that fhould read no ...
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... talk pleasantly of this their first journey to London . Garrick , evidently meaning to embellish a little , faid one day in my hearing , we rode and tied . " And the Bishop of Killaloe informed me , that at another time , when Johnfon ...
... talk pleasantly of this their first journey to London . Garrick , evidently meaning to embellish a little , faid one day in my hearing , we rode and tied . " And the Bishop of Killaloe informed me , that at another time , when Johnfon ...
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