The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: Together with A Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides, Volume 8Swan Sonnenschein, Lowrey, 1888 |
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Page 83
... learned preacher ) it may be demanded , what the thing we speak of is ? Or what this facetiousness ( or wit , as he calls it be fore ) doth import ? To which questions I might reply , as Democritus did to him that asked the definition ...
... learned preacher ) it may be demanded , what the thing we speak of is ? Or what this facetiousness ( or wit , as he calls it be fore ) doth import ? To which questions I might reply , as Democritus did to him that asked the definition ...
Page 102
... learned bishop of our acquaint- ance , as to there being merit in religious faith , being mentioned : -JOHNSON . “ Why , yes , Sir , the most licentious man , were hell open before him , would not take the most beautiful strumpet to his ...
... learned bishop of our acquaint- ance , as to there being merit in religious faith , being mentioned : -JOHNSON . “ Why , yes , Sir , the most licentious man , were hell open before him , would not take the most beautiful strumpet to his ...
Page 110
... learned , and very modest brethren above mentioned have done , upon their late dignification and exaltation . " A majority of the members of the society pro- secuted Mr. Robertson , the publisher of the paper , for damages ; and the ...
... learned , and very modest brethren above mentioned have done , upon their late dignification and exaltation . " A majority of the members of the society pro- secuted Mr. Robertson , the publisher of the paper , for damages ; and the ...
Page 127
... learned , intelligent , and coimu- nicative companion , and a friend whom long fami- liarity as much endeared . Lawrence is one of the best men whom I have known . - Nostrum omnium miserere Deus . " ( Pr . and Med . p . 203. ) It was Dr ...
... learned , intelligent , and coimu- nicative companion , and a friend whom long fami- liarity as much endeared . Lawrence is one of the best men whom I have known . - Nostrum omnium miserere Deus . " ( Pr . and Med . p . 203. ) It was Dr ...
Page 149
... learned and ingenious clergyman ( 1 ) , of whom , when he had published notes upon the Psalms , I inquired what was his opinion of Hammond's Commentary , and was answered , that he had never heard of it . As this gentleman has the ...
... learned and ingenious clergyman ( 1 ) , of whom , when he had published notes upon the Psalms , I inquired what was his opinion of Hammond's Commentary , and was answered , that he had never heard of it . As this gentleman has the ...
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