Essays on Various SubjectsJ. Johnson, 1809 - 158 páginas |
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... passion for poetry , though not with so much hindrance to his school 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 ...
... passion for poetry , though not with so much hindrance to his school 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 ...
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... passion , before my character in life " could draw it's complexion from it ; and " whether I have succeeded or no , or whe " ther I am deceived , and necessity alone " makes c 3 " makes me virtuous , I know not ; but THE REV . GEORGE ...
... passion , before my character in life " could draw it's complexion from it ; and " whether I have succeeded or no , or whe " ther I am deceived , and necessity alone " makes c 3 " makes me virtuous , I know not ; but THE REV . GEORGE ...
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... are misrepresented by prejudice and passion , how many are totally suppressed by ignorance or design ; aware how little we can enter into the mo- tives of the agents , from which the very colour tives THE REV . GEORGE WALKER . Ixi.
... are misrepresented by prejudice and passion , how many are totally suppressed by ignorance or design ; aware how little we can enter into the mo- tives of the agents , from which the very colour tives THE REV . GEORGE WALKER . Ixi.
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... passions of the multitude against all who possessed sufficient courage and wis- dom to oppose themselves to the mad pro- jects of the minister . To the animosities thus wickedly excited may be attributed the popular excesses at ...
... passions of the multitude against all who possessed sufficient courage and wis- dom to oppose themselves to the mad pro- jects of the minister . To the animosities thus wickedly excited may be attributed the popular excesses at ...
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... passion had occasioned , had flowed many of the bitterest vexations which he had ex- perienced in his passage through life * . Had he survived a few more years , it may be fairly presumed that he would have gone well nigh to have ...
... passion had occasioned , had flowed many of the bitterest vexations which he had ex- perienced in his passage through life * . Had he survived a few more years , it may be fairly presumed that he would have gone well nigh to have ...
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