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 VolumesHenry Baldwin, 1793 - Authors, English |
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... fhall go and pass a winter amid the blafts there . We fhall have fine fish , and we shall take fome dried tongues with us , and fome books . We fhall have a strong built veffel , and fome Orkney men to navigate her . We must build a ...
... fhall go and pass a winter amid the blafts there . We fhall have fine fish , and we shall take fome dried tongues with us , and fome books . We fhall have a strong built veffel , and fome Orkney men to navigate her . We must build a ...
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... fhall be . " JOHNSON . " Sir , there is no harm . What philofophy fuggefts to us on this topick is probable : what fcripture tells us is certain . Dr. Henry More has carried it as far as philofophy can . You may buy both his theological ...
... fhall be . " JOHNSON . " Sir , there is no harm . What philofophy fuggefts to us on this topick is probable : what fcripture tells us is certain . Dr. Henry More has carried it as far as philofophy can . You may buy both his theological ...
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... that what would not otherwise man . + Mr. Paterson , in a pamphlet , produced fome evidence : to fhow that his work was written before Sterne's Sentimental Journey ' appeared . be 1772 . Etat . 63 . be fair , fhall DR . JOHNSON . 31.
... that what would not otherwise man . + Mr. Paterson , in a pamphlet , produced fome evidence : to fhow that his work was written before Sterne's Sentimental Journey ' appeared . be 1772 . Etat . 63 . be fair , fhall DR . JOHNSON . 31.
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... fhall be fair ; but I maintain , that an individual of any fociety , who practises what is allowed , is not a dishonest man . " BOSWELL . So then , Sir , you do not think ill of a man who wins perhaps forty thousand pounds in a winter ...
... fhall be fair ; but I maintain , that an individual of any fociety , who practises what is allowed , is not a dishonest man . " BOSWELL . So then , Sir , you do not think ill of a man who wins perhaps forty thousand pounds in a winter ...
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... fhall be con- fidered as criminal . But punishments , however fevere , that produce no lafting evil , may be just and reasonable , because they may be neceffary . Such have been the punishments ufed by the re- fpondent . No fcholar has ...
... fhall be con- fidered as criminal . But punishments , however fevere , that produce no lafting evil , may be just and reasonable , because they may be neceffary . Such have been the punishments ufed by the re- fpondent . No fcholar has ...
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