Essays on Various SubjectsJ. Johnson, 1809 - 158 páginas |
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... genius yet unripe , and which perhaps may " promise something better when at matu- rity . The letter enclosed I wrote on pur- ce pose to show the natural wavering of my " mind , for which I have been often upbraid- " ed by Mr. A. ” The ...
... genius yet unripe , and which perhaps may " promise something better when at matu- rity . The letter enclosed I wrote on pur- ce pose to show the natural wavering of my " mind , for which I have been often upbraid- " ed by Mr. A. ” The ...
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... genius and fine parts ; and as a few 66 years more at his books would fit him for " public usefulness , I would have you by " all means put him forward . It will not only be doing him justice , but it will be 66 your easiest way of ...
... genius and fine parts ; and as a few 66 years more at his books would fit him for " public usefulness , I would have you by " all means put him forward . It will not only be doing him justice , but it will be 66 your easiest way of ...
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George Walker. tures of the wisest ancients as but the in fancy of human genius . Those sublime dis- coveries , which have raised the human in- tellect to such a height of glory , which have afforded the noblest proof of what the mind of ...
George Walker. tures of the wisest ancients as but the in fancy of human genius . Those sublime dis- coveries , which have raised the human in- tellect to such a height of glory , which have afforded the noblest proof of what the mind of ...
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... genius . This production , the result of so much patient industry and laborious investi- gation , was sold to Mr. Johnson for the small sum of 40 : and even this was after- ward voluntarily remitted by Mr. Walker , as the sale had not ...
... genius . This production , the result of so much patient industry and laborious investi- gation , was sold to Mr. Johnson for the small sum of 40 : and even this was after- ward voluntarily remitted by Mr. Walker , as the sale had not ...
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... genius , so it is of the most dangerous tendency in another view , which has never , I believe , been adverted to . The power in the house of commons of im- peaching a bad minister , whose crimes no other other form of justice can reach ...
... genius , so it is of the most dangerous tendency in another view , which has never , I believe , been adverted to . The power in the house of commons of im- peaching a bad minister , whose crimes no other other form of justice can reach ...
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