Essays on Various SubjectsJ. Johnson, 1809 - 158 páginas |
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... duties of a knight , or compound by the payment of a stipulated sum , was revived by the arbitrary James , for the pur- b VOL . I. pose pose of replenishing his exhausted coffers . Few at that OF FIRST VOLUME MEMOIR OF THE REV GEORGE ...
... duties of a knight , or compound by the payment of a stipulated sum , was revived by the arbitrary James , for the pur- b VOL . I. pose pose of replenishing his exhausted coffers . Few at that OF FIRST VOLUME MEMOIR OF THE REV GEORGE ...
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... duties had been di- verted by that propensity to novelty , so na- tural to the ardour of youthful minds . This , like all the rest of his early productions , bears the strongest marks of a vigorous and active mind , and evinces a ...
... duties had been di- verted by that propensity to novelty , so na- tural to the ardour of youthful minds . This , like all the rest of his early productions , bears the strongest marks of a vigorous and active mind , and evinces a ...
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... duties as is here supposed : on the contrary , in at letter to his father in December 1748 , a very flattering testimony to his proficiency is borne him by his uncle , who thus expresses himself : " I should be glad to know what your ...
... duties as is here supposed : on the contrary , in at letter to his father in December 1748 , a very flattering testimony to his proficiency is borne him by his uncle , who thus expresses himself : " I should be glad to know what your ...
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... duty to instruct me in this or in any other " kind of practice , but , as some recompense for the " sums he got from us , filled our brains with a deal of " fine speculative knowledge , without once showing the " several useful and ...
... duty to instruct me in this or in any other " kind of practice , but , as some recompense for the " sums he got from us , filled our brains with a deal of " fine speculative knowledge , without once showing the " several useful and ...
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... " the sublime and rational duties it recom- 66 mends , and therefore study to reduce it " to their own low and grovelling capacities . " Because VOL . I. d • " Because themselves have no idea of a 66 THE REV . GEORGE WALKER . xxxiii.
... " the sublime and rational duties it recom- 66 mends , and therefore study to reduce it " to their own low and grovelling capacities . " Because VOL . I. d • " Because themselves have no idea of a 66 THE REV . GEORGE WALKER . xxxiii.
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