Life of Johnson ...Harper, 1891 |
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... heard , from one whom he tells us , in his Lives of the Pocts , Gray found ' a poet , a philosopher , and a good man ' . ' My Lord Elibank did not answer my letter to his lordship for some time . The reason will appear , when we come to ...
... heard , from one whom he tells us , in his Lives of the Pocts , Gray found ' a poet , a philosopher , and a good man ' . ' My Lord Elibank did not answer my letter to his lordship for some time . The reason will appear , when we come to ...
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... heard a late baronet , of some distinction in the political world in the beginning of the present reign , observe , that ' walking the streets of Edinburgh at night was pretty perilous , and a good deal odoriferous . ' The peril is much ...
... heard a late baronet , of some distinction in the political world in the beginning of the present reign , observe , that ' walking the streets of Edinburgh at night was pretty perilous , and a good deal odoriferous . ' The peril is much ...
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... heard of happier climates and less arbitrary government . ' Ib . p . 128 . " • To a man that ranges the streets of London , where he is tempted to contrive wants for the pleasure of supplying them , a shop affords no image worthy of ...
... heard of happier climates and less arbitrary government . ' Ib . p . 128 . " • To a man that ranges the streets of London , where he is tempted to contrive wants for the pleasure of supplying them , a shop affords no image worthy of ...
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... heard Burke say , in the course of an even- ing , ten good things , each of which would have served a noted wit ( whom he named ) to live upon for a twelvemonth . I find , since the former edition , that some persons have objected to ...
... heard Burke say , in the course of an even- ing , ten good things , each of which would have served a noted wit ( whom he named ) to live upon for a twelvemonth . I find , since the former edition , that some persons have objected to ...
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... heard Helvetius and Saurin say that they had told Montesquieu that he ought to suppress his Esprit des Lois . They were still con- vinced that their advice was right . J. H. Burton's Hume , ii . 385-7 . It was at Fergusson's house ...
... heard Helvetius and Saurin say that they had told Montesquieu that he ought to suppress his Esprit des Lois . They were still con- vinced that their advice was right . J. H. Burton's Hume , ii . 385-7 . It was at Fergusson's house ...
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