The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.J. Murray, 1831 - Authors, English |
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Page xxvi
... common as well as his most confidential intercourses - all his most secret communion with his own conscience - and even the solemn and contrite exercises of his piety , have been divulged and exhibited to the " garish eye " of the world ...
... common as well as his most confidential intercourses - all his most secret communion with his own conscience - and even the solemn and contrite exercises of his piety , have been divulged and exhibited to the " garish eye " of the world ...
Page xxix
... common as well as his most confidential intercourses - all his most secret communion with his own conscience - and even the solemn and contrite exercises of his piety , have been divulged and exhibited to the " garish eye " of the world ...
... common as well as his most confidential intercourses - all his most secret communion with his own conscience - and even the solemn and contrite exercises of his piety , have been divulged and exhibited to the " garish eye " of the world ...
Page xxxiii
... common centre of union for the great , the accomplished , the learned , and the ingenious ; all these qualities I can , in perfect confidence of not being accused of flattery , ascribe to you . If a man may indulge an honest pride , in ...
... common centre of union for the great , the accomplished , the learned , and the ingenious ; all these qualities I can , in perfect confidence of not being accused of flattery , ascribe to you . If a man may indulge an honest pride , in ...
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... common magnificence , and was the last but one that maintained the splendour of the Riding . ] His mother was Sarah Ford , descended of an ancient race of sub- Piozzi , stantial yeomanry in Warwickshire ; [ Mrs. Piozzi states her to ...
... common magnificence , and was the last but one that maintained the splendour of the Riding . ] His mother was Sarah Ford , descended of an ancient race of sub- Piozzi , stantial yeomanry in Warwickshire ; [ Mrs. Piozzi states her to ...
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... common judges of property , but by wretches hired by those to whom excise is paid ; " and in the Idler ( No. 65 ) , he calls a Commissioner of Excise " one of the lowest of all human beings . " violence of language seems so little ...
... common judges of property , but by wretches hired by those to whom excise is paid ; " and in the Idler ( No. 65 ) , he calls a Commissioner of Excise " one of the lowest of all human beings . " violence of language seems so little ...
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