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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... obliged to take to abuse , to fill up the time . Now they have fuch a number of precedents , they have no occafion for abufe . " JOHNSON . " Nay , Sir , they had more law long ago than they have now . As to precedents , to be fure they ...
... obliged to take to abuse , to fill up the time . Now they have fuch a number of precedents , they have no occafion for abufe . " JOHNSON . " Nay , Sir , they had more law long ago than they have now . As to precedents , to be fure they ...
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... obliged to gain it . " JOHNSON . " But , Sir , there is a difference when the caufe is of a man's own making . " We talked of the proper use of riches . JOHN- SON . " If I were a man of a great estate , I would drive all the rafcals ...
... obliged to gain it . " JOHNSON . " But , Sir , there is a difference when the caufe is of a man's own making . " We talked of the proper use of riches . JOHN- SON . " If I were a man of a great estate , I would drive all the rafcals ...
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... some thoughts , while the fummer lafted , of being obliged to go to London on fome little bufinefs ; otherwife I fhould certainly have trouble 3 • Etat . 63 . 1772. troubled him with a letter DR . JOHNSON . 63 1772. ...
... some thoughts , while the fummer lafted , of being obliged to go to London on fome little bufinefs ; otherwife I fhould certainly have trouble 3 • Etat . 63 . 1772. troubled him with a letter DR . JOHNSON . 63 1772. ...
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... obliged to be at the ex- penfe of purchafing their own clothes , have much lower wages than men fervants , to whom a great proportion of that article is furnished , and when in fact our female house fervants work much harder than the ...
... obliged to be at the ex- penfe of purchafing their own clothes , have much lower wages than men fervants , to whom a great proportion of that article is furnished , and when in fact our female house fervants work much harder than the ...
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... oblige people to take oaths as to the difputed right , is wrong . know not whether I could take them : but I do I 1773 . Etat . 64 1773 . Etat . 64 . not blame thofe who 2 not DR . JOHNSON . 77 caftle; but as Mrs. Bulkeley, who played ...
... oblige people to take oaths as to the difputed right , is wrong . know not whether I could take them : but I do I 1773 . Etat . 64 1773 . Etat . 64 . not blame thofe who 2 not DR . JOHNSON . 77 caftle; but as Mrs. Bulkeley, who played ...
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