Essays on Various Subjects, 2Johnson, 1809 |
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... perhaps be already entertained , that I mean to deliver a sermon instead of an essay . Now before a philo- sophical and literary society this would be rather ridiculous , almost as much so , as if attending a town - meeting on parish ...
... perhaps be already entertained , that I mean to deliver a sermon instead of an essay . Now before a philo- sophical and literary society this would be rather ridiculous , almost as much so , as if attending a town - meeting on parish ...
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... perhaps than any other accounts for the ab- horrence and contempt , in which the cha- racter is universally held . He has no fel low , because no one , who has a portion of honesty 0 honesty or truth , who has the least feeling 14 ON ...
... perhaps than any other accounts for the ab- horrence and contempt , in which the cha- racter is universally held . He has no fel low , because no one , who has a portion of honesty 0 honesty or truth , who has the least feeling 14 ON ...
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... perhaps is there an usurper to be found in all history , under whom so few suffered from the axe or the cord . I am no panegyrist of Crom- well ; a disgusting hypocrisy entered deeply into his character , but political profligacy more ...
... perhaps is there an usurper to be found in all history , under whom so few suffered from the axe or the cord . I am no panegyrist of Crom- well ; a disgusting hypocrisy entered deeply into his character , but political profligacy more ...
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... perhaps that ever lived , when a great victory of the Huguenots threatened destruction to the Catholic cause , with per- fect sang - froid as to any religion said , “ Well then , we must say our prayers in French . " Yet on the pretence ...
... perhaps that ever lived , when a great victory of the Huguenots threatened destruction to the Catholic cause , with per- fect sang - froid as to any religion said , “ Well then , we must say our prayers in French . " Yet on the pretence ...
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... perhaps the strongest argu- ment arises from observing the manner in which we classify the different existences in nature , and arrange them under genera and species . All that we know of the beings around us , and which authorises us ...
... perhaps the strongest argu- ment arises from observing the manner in which we classify the different existences in nature , and arrange them under genera and species . All that we know of the beings around us , and which authorises us ...
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