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... consider able a portion of the wisdom and wit of ' the brightest ornament of the eighteenth century ' , ' I have largely pro- vided for the instruction and entertainment of mankind.- London , April 20 , 1791 . ADVERTISEMENT TO THE ...
... consider able a portion of the wisdom and wit of ' the brightest ornament of the eighteenth century ' , ' I have largely pro- vided for the instruction and entertainment of mankind.- London , April 20 , 1791 . ADVERTISEMENT TO THE ...
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... consider that the principal store of wit and wisdom which this Work contains , was not a particular selection from his general conversation , but was merely his occasional talk at such times as I had the good fortune to be in his ...
... consider that the principal store of wit and wisdom which this Work contains , was not a particular selection from his general conversation , but was merely his occasional talk at such times as I had the good fortune to be in his ...
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... consider as the peculiar value of the following work , is , the quantity it contains of Johnson's conversa- tion ; which is universally acknowledged to have been eminently instructive and entertaining ; and of which the specimens that I ...
... consider as the peculiar value of the following work , is , the quantity it contains of Johnson's conversa- tion ; which is universally acknowledged to have been eminently instructive and entertaining ; and of which the specimens that I ...
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... consider the punctilious exactness with which the different houses in which Milton resided have been traced by the writers of his life , a similar enthusiasm may be par- doned in the biographer of Johnson . His tragedy being by this ...
... consider the punctilious exactness with which the different houses in which Milton resided have been traced by the writers of his life , a similar enthusiasm may be par- doned in the biographer of Johnson . His tragedy being by this ...
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... consider that it must have originated from the person himself who went by the name of Richard Savage . If the maxim falsum in uno , falsum in omnibus , were to be received without qualification , the credit of Savage's narra- tive , as ...
... consider that it must have originated from the person himself who went by the name of Richard Savage . If the maxim falsum in uno , falsum in omnibus , were to be received without qualification , the credit of Savage's narra- tive , as ...
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