The Works of Samuel Johnson, L. L. D.: In Twelve Volumes, Volumen8William Durell, 1811 |
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... raise himself to fame , by erecting monuments , striking coins , and procuring trans- lations of Milton ; and afterwards by a great passion for Arthur Johnston , a Scots physician's version of the Psalms , of which he printed many fine ...
... raise himself to fame , by erecting monuments , striking coins , and procuring trans- lations of Milton ; and afterwards by a great passion for Arthur Johnston , a Scots physician's version of the Psalms , of which he printed many fine ...
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... raise a disquisition , but I cannot forbear to observe , that I never yet knew disorders of mind in- crease felicity : every madman is either arrogant and irascible , or gloomy and suspicious , or possessed by some passion or notion ...
... raise a disquisition , but I cannot forbear to observe , that I never yet knew disorders of mind in- crease felicity : every madman is either arrogant and irascible , or gloomy and suspicious , or possessed by some passion or notion ...
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... it , and of which I have therefore endeavoured to shew the uncertainty and inconsistency . This scale of being I have demonstrated to be raised by presumptuous imagination , to rest on nothing at the bottom REVIEW OF A.
... it , and of which I have therefore endeavoured to shew the uncertainty and inconsistency . This scale of being I have demonstrated to be raised by presumptuous imagination , to rest on nothing at the bottom REVIEW OF A.
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... raised , which is so ready to fall to pieces of itself , that no great praise can be derived from its destruction . To object is always easy , and it has been well observed by a late writer , that the hand which cannot build a hovel ...
... raised , which is so ready to fall to pieces of itself , that no great praise can be derived from its destruction . To object is always easy , and it has been well observed by a late writer , that the hand which cannot build a hovel ...
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... raised only by interest , and supported only by clamour , which yet has so far prevailed upon ignorance and timidity , that many favour it as reasonable , and many dread it as powerful . What is urged by those who have been so industri ...
... raised only by interest , and supported only by clamour , which yet has so far prevailed upon ignorance and timidity , that many favour it as reasonable , and many dread it as powerful . What is urged by those who have been so industri ...
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