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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... wrote upon law ; and yet he knew a great many other things , and has writ- ten upon other things . Selden too . " SIR A. " Very true , Sir ; and Lord Bacon . But was not Lord Coke a mere lawyer ? " JOHNSON . " Why , I am afraid he was ...
... wrote upon law ; and yet he knew a great many other things , and has writ- ten upon other things . Selden too . " SIR A. " Very true , Sir ; and Lord Bacon . But was not Lord Coke a mere lawyer ? " JOHNSON . " Why , I am afraid he was ...
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... wrote against him ; and you had the controversy between Mr. ELWAL and Mr. BARTER . To try to make him- felf diftinguished , he wrote a letter to King George the Second , challenging him to difpute with him , in which he faid , George ...
... wrote against him ; and you had the controversy between Mr. ELWAL and Mr. BARTER . To try to make him- felf diftinguished , he wrote a letter to King George the Second , challenging him to difpute with him , in which he faid , George ...
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... wrote as follows : " The charge is , that he has used immoderate and cruel correction . Correction , in itself , is not 1772 . Ætat . 63 . 4 Here was a blank , which be filled may 66 thus : - up was told by an apparition ; " - the ...
... wrote as follows : " The charge is , that he has used immoderate and cruel correction . Correction , in itself , is not 1772 . Ætat . 63 . 4 Here was a blank , which be filled may 66 thus : - up was told by an apparition ; " - the ...
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... wrote , or partly wrote , an Epitaph on Mrs. Bell , wife of his friend John Bell , Efq . brother of the Reverend Dr. Bell , Prebendary of Westminster , which is printed in his Works . It is in English profe , and has fo little of his ...
... wrote , or partly wrote , an Epitaph on Mrs. Bell , wife of his friend John Bell , Efq . brother of the Reverend Dr. Bell , Prebendary of Westminster , which is printed in his Works . It is in English profe , and has fo little of his ...
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... wrote it , and , I think , I found it full as often better , as worse , than I expected . " Baretti and Davies have had a furious quarrel ; a quarrel , I think , irreconcileable . Dr. Gold- smith has a new cornedy , which is expected in ...
... wrote it , and , I think , I found it full as often better , as worse , than I expected . " Baretti and Davies have had a furious quarrel ; a quarrel , I think , irreconcileable . Dr. Gold- smith has a new cornedy , which is expected in ...
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