The Life of Samuel Johnson, Comprehending an Account of His Studies and Numerous Works in Chronological Order: A Series of His Epistolary Correspondance and Conversations, ... and Original Pieces of His Composition, Band 4Baynes and son, 1826 |
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... history , Must drudge , like Selden , days and nights , And in the endless labour die . Who travels in religious jars , ( Truth mixt with errour , shades with rays , ) Like Whiston , wanting pyx or stars , In ocean wide or sinks or ...
... history , Must drudge , like Selden , days and nights , And in the endless labour die . Who travels in religious jars , ( Truth mixt with errour , shades with rays , ) Like Whiston , wanting pyx or stars , In ocean wide or sinks or ...
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... History of China . Green said of Guthrie , that he knew no English ; and Guthrie of Green , that he knew no French : and these two undertook to translate Duhalde's History of China . In this translation there was found , ' the twenty ...
... History of China . Green said of Guthrie , that he knew no English ; and Guthrie of Green , that he knew no French : and these two undertook to translate Duhalde's History of China . In this translation there was found , ' the twenty ...
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... history , from which a long quotation is to be inserted . If Mr. Nichols cannot easily find the book , Mr. Johnson will send it from Streatham . " " Clarendon is here returned . " " By some accident , I laid your note upon Duke up so ...
... history , from which a long quotation is to be inserted . If Mr. Nichols cannot easily find the book , Mr. Johnson will send it from Streatham . " " Clarendon is here returned . " " By some accident , I laid your note upon Duke up so ...
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... history I do not express with exaggeration , when I say it is wonderful : indeed his labours have proved it to the world ; and all who have the pleasure of his acquaintance can bear testimony to the frankness of his communications in ...
... history I do not express with exaggeration , when I say it is wonderful : indeed his labours have proved it to the world ; and all who have the pleasure of his acquaintance can bear testimony to the frankness of his communications in ...
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... history of his country . So easy is his style in these Lives , that I do not recol- lect more than three uncommon or learned words : one , when giving an account of the approach of Waller's mor- tal disease , he says , " he found his ...
... history of his country . So easy is his style in these Lives , that I do not recol- lect more than three uncommon or learned words : one , when giving an account of the approach of Waller's mor- tal disease , he says , " he found his ...
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