Life of JohnsonOxford University Press, 1927 |
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... instance by the most exemplary parent ; and though I can by no means approve of confounding the distinction between lawful and illicit off- spring , which is , in effect , insulting the civil establishment of our country , to look no ...
... instance by the most exemplary parent ; and though I can by no means approve of confounding the distinction between lawful and illicit off- spring , which is , in effect , insulting the civil establishment of our country , to look no ...
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... instance . It was highly gratifying to me that my friend , Sir Joshua Reynolds , to whom it is inscribed , lived to peruse it , and to give the strongest testimony to its fidelity ; but before a second edition , 1 See Mr. Malone's ...
... instance . It was highly gratifying to me that my friend , Sir Joshua Reynolds , to whom it is inscribed , lived to peruse it , and to give the strongest testimony to its fidelity ; but before a second edition , 1 See Mr. Malone's ...
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... instance of any man , whose history has been minutely related , that did not in every part of life discover the same proportion of intellectual vigour . ' In all such investigations it is certainly unwise to pay too much attention to ...
... instance of any man , whose history has been minutely related , that did not in every part of life discover the same proportion of intellectual vigour . ' In all such investigations it is certainly unwise to pay too much attention to ...
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... instance of what has been often observed , that the boy is the man in miniature : and that the dis- tinguishing characteristicks of each individual are the same , through the whole course of life . His favourites used to receive very ...
... instance of what has been often observed , that the boy is the man in miniature : and that the dis- tinguishing characteristicks of each individual are the same , through the whole course of life . His favourites used to receive very ...
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... instance of that rigid honesty which he ever inflexibly preserved . Taylor had obtained his father's consent to be entered of Pembroke , that he might be with his schoolfellow Johnson , with whom , though some years older than himself ...
... instance of that rigid honesty which he ever inflexibly preserved . Taylor had obtained his father's consent to be entered of Pembroke , that he might be with his schoolfellow Johnson , with whom , though some years older than himself ...
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