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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... perhaps , to have expired with the century . I am against abolishing it ; because that would be declaring it wrong to establish it ; but I fhould have no objection to make an act , continuing it for an- other century , and then letting ...
... perhaps , to have expired with the century . I am against abolishing it ; because that would be declaring it wrong to establish it ; but I fhould have no objection to make an act , continuing it for an- other century , and then letting ...
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... Perhaps , Sir , it might be done by the refpe & t belonging to office , as among the Romans , where the drefs , the toga , infpired reverence . " JOHNSON . " Why , we know very little about the Romans . But , furely , it is much easier ...
... Perhaps , Sir , it might be done by the refpe & t belonging to office , as among the Romans , where the drefs , the toga , infpired reverence . " JOHNSON . " Why , we know very little about the Romans . But , furely , it is much easier ...
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... perhaps , have an agreeable effect , as the notes of different birds concur in the harmony of the grove , and please more than if they were all exactly alike . I could name fome gentlemen of Ireland , to whom a flight proportion of the ...
... perhaps , have an agreeable effect , as the notes of different birds concur in the harmony of the grove , and please more than if they were all exactly alike . I could name fome gentlemen of Ireland , to whom a flight proportion of the ...
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... perhaps , one would choose to go a hunting , when the other would choofe to go a fishing ; and fo they would part . Befides , Sir , a savage man and a favage woman meet by chance ; and when the man fees another woman that pleases him ...
... perhaps , one would choose to go a hunting , when the other would choofe to go a fishing ; and fo they would part . Befides , Sir , a savage man and a favage woman meet by chance ; and when the man fees another woman that pleases him ...
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... perhaps , at no interest at all , and having their bonds in your poffeffion . " BOSWELL . " May not a man , Sir , employ his riches to advantage in educating young men of merit ? " JOHNSON . " Yes , Sir , if they fall in your way ; but ...
... perhaps , at no interest at all , and having their bonds in your poffeffion . " BOSWELL . " May not a man , Sir , employ his riches to advantage in educating young men of merit ? " JOHNSON . " Yes , Sir , if they fall in your way ; but ...
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