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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... less exalted by fpiritual habits , and yct upon the whole not to be excluded from heaven , have been betrayed into by the predominance of paffion . That clergymen may be confidered as finners in general , as all men are , cannot be ...
... less exalted by fpiritual habits , and yct upon the whole not to be excluded from heaven , have been betrayed into by the predominance of paffion . That clergymen may be confidered as finners in general , as all men are , cannot be ...
Page 58
... less ferocious , and therefore the laws against fraud and tovin fhall be relaxed . ' " Whatever reafon may have influenced the Judges to a relaxation of the law , it was not that the nation was grown lefs fierce ; and , I am afraid , it ...
... less ferocious , and therefore the laws against fraud and tovin fhall be relaxed . ' " Whatever reafon may have influenced the Judges to a relaxation of the law , it was not that the nation was grown lefs fierce ; and , I am afraid , it ...
Page 105
... . Of his learning the patron is probably the only judge in the parish ; and of his piety not less a judge than others ; and is more likely to enquire minutely and diligently before 1773 . Etat . 64 . pa- before he gives DR . JOHNSON . 105.
... . Of his learning the patron is probably the only judge in the parish ; and of his piety not less a judge than others ; and is more likely to enquire minutely and diligently before 1773 . Etat . 64 . pa- before he gives DR . JOHNSON . 105.
Page 139
... less for wishing me away . I I gave her trouble enough , and shall be glad , in recompence , to give her any pleasure . " I would fend fome porter into the Hebrides , if I knew which way it could be got to my kind friends there ...
... less for wishing me away . I I gave her trouble enough , and shall be glad , in recompence , to give her any pleasure . " I would fend fome porter into the Hebrides , if I knew which way it could be got to my kind friends there ...
Page 142
... less determinate than I expect- ed : they are , indeed , much less pofitive than , if he can truft his own book which he laid before me , he is able to give . But I believe it will al- ways be found , that he who calls much for inform ...
... less determinate than I expect- ed : they are , indeed , much less pofitive than , if he can truft his own book which he laid before me , he is able to give . But I believe it will al- ways be found , that he who calls much for inform ...
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