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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... pleased to buy for me an ounce of oil of vitriol ; not fpirit of vitriol , but oil of vitriol . It will coft three half - pence . ' Peyton immediately went , and returned with it , and told him it coft but a penny . " 1 I then reminded ...
... pleased to buy for me an ounce of oil of vitriol ; not fpirit of vitriol , but oil of vitriol . It will coft three half - pence . ' Peyton immediately went , and returned with it , and told him it coft but a penny . " 1 I then reminded ...
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... pleased with himself when he finds his intellectual inclinations predominate . He obferved , that to reafon philofophically on the nature of prayer , was very unprofitable . Talking of ghofts , he said , he knew one friend , who was an ...
... pleased with himself when he finds his intellectual inclinations predominate . He obferved , that to reafon philofophically on the nature of prayer , was very unprofitable . Talking of ghofts , he said , he knew one friend , who was an ...
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... pleased to call this " a well - drawn - paper , " preferred the former very inferiour petition which I had written ; thus confirming the truth of an obfervation made to me by one of their number , in a merry mood : " My dear Sir , give ...
... pleased to call this " a well - drawn - paper , " preferred the former very inferiour petition which I had written ; thus confirming the truth of an obfervation made to me by one of their number , in a merry mood : " My dear Sir , give ...
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... pleased , paffions which may be roufed . Lord Chesterfield being mentioned , Johnson re- marked , that almost all of that celebrated noble- bleman's witty fayings were puns . He , however , allowed the merit of good wit to his ...
... pleased , paffions which may be roufed . Lord Chesterfield being mentioned , Johnson re- marked , that almost all of that celebrated noble- bleman's witty fayings were puns . He , however , allowed the merit of good wit to his ...
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... pleased , without any apprehenfion of danger , have turned afide , and first set fire to St. James's palace . " On Tuesday , April 27 , Mr. Beauclerk and I called on him in the morning . As we walked up Johnfon's - court , I faid , " I ...
... pleased , without any apprehenfion of danger , have turned afide , and first set fire to St. James's palace . " On Tuesday , April 27 , Mr. Beauclerk and I called on him in the morning . As we walked up Johnfon's - court , I faid , " I ...
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