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... doubt , if his discourse at other periods had been collected with the same attention , the whole tenor of what he uttered would have been found equally excellent . His strong , clear , and animated enforcement of religion , morality ...
... doubt , if his discourse at other periods had been collected with the same attention , the whole tenor of what he uttered would have been found equally excellent . His strong , clear , and animated enforcement of religion , morality ...
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... doubt I should not have been very prompt to gratify Sir John Hawkins with any compliment in his life - time , I do now frankly acknowledge , that , in my opinion , his volume , however inade- quate and improper as a life of Dr. Johnson ...
... doubt I should not have been very prompt to gratify Sir John Hawkins with any compliment in his life - time , I do now frankly acknowledge , that , in my opinion , his volume , however inade- quate and improper as a life of Dr. Johnson ...
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... doubt the authenticity of this account , by the following circumstantial statement in a letter to me from Miss Seward , of Lichfield : - ' I know those verses were addressed to Lucy Porter , when he was enamoured of her in his boyish ...
... doubt the authenticity of this account , by the following circumstantial statement in a letter to me from Miss Seward , of Lichfield : - ' I know those verses were addressed to Lucy Porter , when he was enamoured of her in his boyish ...
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... doubt that Johnson , though he thus shewed a manly firmness , proved a most affec- tionate and indulgent husband to the last moment of Mrs. Johnson's life and in his Prayers and Meditations , we find very remarkable evidence that his ...
... doubt that Johnson , though he thus shewed a manly firmness , proved a most affec- tionate and indulgent husband to the last moment of Mrs. Johnson's life and in his Prayers and Meditations , we find very remarkable evidence that his ...
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... doubt that he was insensibly furnishing his mind with various knowledge ; but I have not discovered that he wrote any thing except a great part of his tragedy of Irene . Mr. Peter Garrick , the elder brother of David , told me that he ...
... doubt that he was insensibly furnishing his mind with various knowledge ; but I have not discovered that he wrote any thing except a great part of his tragedy of Irene . Mr. Peter Garrick , the elder brother of David , told me that he ...
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