Essays on Various SubjectsJ. Johnson, 1809 - 158 páginas |
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... considerable antiquity ; and it has been transmitted by them as a kind of hereditary anecdote , that an ancestor in the reign of James I was reluctantly advanced to the honours of knighthood . The reader will recollect , that an ...
... considerable antiquity ; and it has been transmitted by them as a kind of hereditary anecdote , that an ancestor in the reign of James I was reluctantly advanced to the honours of knighthood . The reader will recollect , that an ...
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... 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 consequence of a superior capacity united to a more than ordinary share of ...
... 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 consequence of a superior capacity united to a more than ordinary share of ...
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... considerable eminence in his profession , but who , from the freedom of his speculative opinions , seems to have been considered by some of his contemporary ministers as entertaining unsound and he- terodox tenets . The presbyterians ...
... considerable eminence in his profession , but who , from the freedom of his speculative opinions , seems to have been considered by some of his contemporary ministers as entertaining unsound and he- terodox tenets . The presbyterians ...
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... considerable uneasi- ness to his friends , lest his health should fall a sacrifice , and induced them to remonstrate with him upon the necessity of remitting in some measure the severity of his application . The effect of these ...
... considerable uneasi- ness to his friends , lest his health should fall a sacrifice , and induced them to remonstrate with him upon the necessity of remitting in some measure the severity of his application . The effect of these ...
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... considerable service to him , as it intro- duced him to the particular notice of that gentleman , who was pleased to honour him during the whole of his residence there with many personal attentions . He enjoyed also the advantage of ...
... considerable service to him , as it intro- duced him to the particular notice of that gentleman , who was pleased to honour him during the whole of his residence there with many personal attentions . He enjoyed also the advantage of ...
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