Essays on Various SubjectsJ. Johnson, 1809 - 158 páginas |
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... , some apology may be due for a minuteness of detail , which the few incidents in the life of a re- tired literary character would on any other account have rendered unnecessary . CONTENTS OF THE FIRST VOLUME . MEMOIR OF THE REV.
... , some apology may be due for a minuteness of detail , which the few incidents in the life of a re- tired literary character would on any other account have rendered unnecessary . CONTENTS OF THE FIRST VOLUME . MEMOIR OF THE REV.
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... character . Before he had attained the age of five , he had made so considerable a proficiency in the Latin lan- guage , that he was deemed fully competent to enter upon Cæsar's Commentaries . This rapidity of attainment , the ...
... character . Before he had attained the age of five , he had made so considerable a proficiency in the Latin lan- guage , that he was deemed fully competent to enter upon Cæsar's Commentaries . This rapidity of attainment , the ...
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... character- istic cheerfulness of a boy , and entered with more than common ardour into the juvenile amusements of his school - fellows . For his rapid progress in school learning he was no doubt greatly indebted to the judicious care ...
... character- istic cheerfulness of a boy , and entered with more than common ardour into the juvenile amusements of his school - fellows . For his rapid progress in school learning he was no doubt greatly indebted to the judicious care ...
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... character and talents . the publication of one of his fast sermons in the year 1782 , which was dedicated to Mr. Pitt , at that time the champion of the whigs and the zealous promoter of reform , the Doctor , in a letter to the author ...
... character and talents . the publication of one of his fast sermons in the year 1782 , which was dedicated to Mr. Pitt , at that time the champion of the whigs and the zealous promoter of reform , the Doctor , in a letter to the author ...
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... had so strongly marked the character of their secc ; and many of those controverted points , the truth of which cannot be clearly established upon any any express revelation of Scripture , but which had been vi MEMOIR OF.
... had so strongly marked the character of their secc ; and many of those controverted points , the truth of which cannot be clearly established upon any any express revelation of Scripture , but which had been vi MEMOIR OF.
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