Life of Johnson ...Harper, 1891 |
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... consider rocks and rivers , but the manners , and the mechanic inventions , and the imperfect learning of the inhabitants ; resolved to penetrate into countries as yet little known , and eager to pry into all their secrets , with an ...
... consider rocks and rivers , but the manners , and the mechanic inventions , and the imperfect learning of the inhabitants ; resolved to penetrate into countries as yet little known , and eager to pry into all their secrets , with an ...
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... consider , Sir , that a House of Commons is to the peo- ple as a Creature is to its Creator ' ? " To this question , said Dr. Johnson , I could have replied , that - in the first place the idea of a CREATOR must be such as that he has a ...
... consider , Sir , that a House of Commons is to the peo- ple as a Creature is to its Creator ' ? " To this question , said Dr. Johnson , I could have replied , that - in the first place the idea of a CREATOR must be such as that he has a ...
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... considering that he had not read one of Rowe's plays for thirty years . ' Ib . vii . 417 . 1 Thus : - ' In the Life of Waller , Mr. Nichols will find a reference to the Parliamentary History from which a long quotation is to be inserted ...
... considering that he had not read one of Rowe's plays for thirty years . ' Ib . vii . 417 . 1 Thus : - ' In the Life of Waller , Mr. Nichols will find a reference to the Parliamentary History from which a long quotation is to be inserted ...
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... considering the works of a poet ' , that amendments are seldom made without some token of a rent ; ' but I do not find that this is applicable to prose ' . We shall see that though his amendments in this work are for the better , there ...
... considering the works of a poet ' , that amendments are seldom made without some token of a rent ; ' but I do not find that this is applicable to prose ' . We shall see that though his amendments in this work are for the better , there ...
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... consider it with par- ticular attention . It will be afterwards referred to in this work ' . Various Readings in the Life of ADDISON . " [ But he was our first great example ] He was , however , one of our earliest examples of ...
... consider it with par- ticular attention . It will be afterwards referred to in this work ' . Various Readings in the Life of ADDISON . " [ But he was our first great example ] He was , however , one of our earliest examples of ...
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