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, Volume 2National ilustrated library, 1851 |
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... language should be totally extin- guished . The similitude and derivation of languages afford the most indubitable proof of the traduction of nations , and the genealogy of mankind . They add often physical certainty to historical ...
... language should be totally extin- guished . The similitude and derivation of languages afford the most indubitable proof of the traduction of nations , and the genealogy of mankind . They add often physical certainty to historical ...
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... language was true Sclavonic . The Swede said , it had some similarity with the German . JOHNSON : " Why , Sir , to be sure , such parts of Sclavonia as confine with Germany , will borrow German words ; and such parts as confine with ...
... language was true Sclavonic . The Swede said , it had some similarity with the German . JOHNSON : " Why , Sir , to be sure , such parts of Sclavonia as confine with Germany , will borrow German words ; and such parts as confine with ...
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... language , I think , a new mode of history which tells all that is wanted , and , I suppose , all that is known , without laboured splendour of language , or affected subtlety of conjecture . The exactness of his dates raises my wonder ...
... language , I think , a new mode of history which tells all that is wanted , and , I suppose , all that is known , without laboured splendour of language , or affected subtlety of conjecture . The exactness of his dates raises my wonder ...
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Johnson introduced to George III Visits LichfieldDeath of Catherine Cham | 30 |
1769 | 50 |
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