Essays on Various SubjectsJ. Johnson, 1809 - 158 páginas |
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... early youth he was so much devoted , and of the excel- lence to which in all probability he would have attained , if he had continued to indulge his imagination at the expense of the more serious and profound studies , in which he was ...
... early youth he was so much devoted , and of the excel- lence to which in all probability he would have attained , if he had continued to indulge his imagination at the expense of the more serious and profound studies , in which he was ...
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... early life , having commenced it before he was eighteen . This was partly undertaken as an amusement , and partly to remove from his mind the inaccuracies , obscurities , and inelegancies , which disgraced every system , that had as yet ...
... early life , having commenced it before he was eighteen . This was partly undertaken as an amusement , and partly to remove from his mind the inaccuracies , obscurities , and inelegancies , which disgraced every system , that had as yet ...
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... early life he had contracted the strictest friendship , a friendship that was afterward continued on both sides with that reciprocal affection and esteem , which arise from a similarity of tastes , of habits , and of opinions . This ...
... early life he had contracted the strictest friendship , a friendship that was afterward continued on both sides with that reciprocal affection and esteem , which arise from a similarity of tastes , of habits , and of opinions . This ...
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... early been thrown into circumstances , that had con- tributed to give his mind a decided turn for public affairs . In the celebrated election for Durham in 1761 , he had been induced , by motives of private friendship , to enter warmly ...
... early been thrown into circumstances , that had con- tributed to give his mind a decided turn for public affairs . In the celebrated election for Durham in 1761 , he had been induced , by motives of private friendship , to enter warmly ...
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... , and founded upon , the primeval rights of human nature , upon the sense , conviction , and invariable exercise of these rights i 4 rights with our early ancestors , to which their being THE REV . GEORGE WALKER . cxix.
... , and founded upon , the primeval rights of human nature , upon the sense , conviction , and invariable exercise of these rights i 4 rights with our early ancestors , to which their being THE REV . GEORGE WALKER . cxix.
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