Essays on Various SubjectsJ. Johnson, 1809 - 158 páginas |
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... in reading a battle of Homer , or a " crabbed controversy in theology , than " when a boy in striking a quoitor a tennis- " ball . Nature has not been so indulgent " to me , as to make what is necessary 66 to XX MEMOIR OF.
... in reading a battle of Homer , or a " crabbed controversy in theology , than " when a boy in striking a quoitor a tennis- " ball . Nature has not been so indulgent " to me , as to make what is necessary 66 to XX MEMOIR OF.
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... nature , could alone have occasioned this diffidence of himself in an exercise , which otherwise his general facility of ex- -pression must have rendered easy , and which was more consonant with his fervent piety , and the character of ...
... nature , could alone have occasioned this diffidence of himself in an exercise , which otherwise his general facility of ex- -pression must have rendered easy , and which was more consonant with his fervent piety , and the character of ...
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... , as to make แ no allowance for difference of nature and " abilities . You would laugh to hear their pretty notions of extempore prayer , that it 66 66 comes " comes reeking warm from the heart , that it xxxii MEMOIR OF.
... , as to make แ no allowance for difference of nature and " abilities . You would laugh to hear their pretty notions of extempore prayer , that it 66 66 comes " comes reeking warm from the heart , that it xxxii MEMOIR OF.
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... nature , and without much premedita- " tion can speak with great propriety and " elevation of thought ; but for every one to presume on the like abilities would be to " swell like the frog , and burst in the at- CC tempt . But in my ...
... nature , and without much premedita- " tion can speak with great propriety and " elevation of thought ; but for every one to presume on the like abilities would be to " swell like the frog , and burst in the at- CC tempt . But in my ...
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... nature returned the smile ; winter , " which seemed already to have devoured prey , was compelled to retreat with " precipitation ; summer and all it's gay at- " tendants were recalled , were recalled , vegetables and " animals rejoiced ...
... nature returned the smile ; winter , " which seemed already to have devoured prey , was compelled to retreat with " precipitation ; summer and all it's gay at- " tendants were recalled , were recalled , vegetables and " animals rejoiced ...
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