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... reason why wit and grace might As you favoured my Strictures on not go hand - in - hand , and evangelical truths be wedded to claffical beauties . Though I own , if thefe intellectual ac- complishments are fubfervient to no higher an ...
... reason why wit and grace might As you favoured my Strictures on not go hand - in - hand , and evangelical truths be wedded to claffical beauties . Though I own , if thefe intellectual ac- complishments are fubfervient to no higher an ...
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... reason to believe the faid fix halfpence to be all genuine coins , and not counterfeits . " The Lord Ordinary , after this report , affoilzied the defender from the action , and found expences due to nei- ther of the parties . The ...
... reason to believe the faid fix halfpence to be all genuine coins , and not counterfeits . " The Lord Ordinary , after this report , affoilzied the defender from the action , and found expences due to nei- ther of the parties . The ...
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... reason of age . She went to kirk and market till within a few days of her death , and retained her fenfes to the laft . 2. John Philips , efq . of Duke - ftr . Weftm . formerly a brewer in Peter - ftreet . At Bampton , co . Oxford ...
... reason of age . She went to kirk and market till within a few days of her death , and retained her fenfes to the laft . 2. John Philips , efq . of Duke - ftr . Weftm . formerly a brewer in Peter - ftreet . At Bampton , co . Oxford ...
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... reasons for not publishing yet . In the courfe of the fummer it is hoped that a volume will be ready , to thew ( what a few pages will not fhew ) the in- credible , radical , and incurable defects of Johnfon ; the progrefs made in the ...
... reasons for not publishing yet . In the courfe of the fummer it is hoped that a volume will be ready , to thew ( what a few pages will not fhew ) the in- credible , radical , and incurable defects of Johnfon ; the progrefs made in the ...
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... reason also he was probably cenfured by the Athenians ; he drew the Perftans larger in figure than the Grecks , a circumstance which his countrymen would not observe but with a jealous eye . The general character of Timanthes is , that ...
... reason also he was probably cenfured by the Athenians ; he drew the Perftans larger in figure than the Grecks , a circumstance which his countrymen would not observe but with a jealous eye . The general character of Timanthes is , that ...
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Seite 526 - I pass'd — and they were gone. Read, ye that run, the awful truth With which I charge my page ; A -worm is in the bud of youth, And at the root of age.
Seite 249 - For having lived long, I have experienced many instances of being obliged by better information or fuller consideration to change opinions even on important subjects, which I once thought right, but found to be otherwise. It is therefore that the older I grow, the more apt I am to doubt my own judgment, and to pay more respect to the judgment of others.
Seite 249 - I doubt, too, whether any other Convention we can obtain may be able to make a better Constitution. For when you assemble a number of men to have the advantage of their joint wisdom you inevitably assemble with those men all their prejudices, their passions, their errors of opinion, their local interests, and their selfish views.
Seite 379 - Highness is the last of all mortals whom I should expect to see here." " It was curiosity that led me," said the other; " but I assure you," added he, " that the person -who is the object of all this pomp and magnificence, is the man I envy the least.
Seite 391 - Wiltshire men overcame, but both dukes were slain, no reason of their quarrel written ; such bickerings to recount, met often in these our writers, what more worth is it than to chronicle the wars of kites or crows, flocking and fighting in the air?
Seite 288 - From his contemporaries he neither courted nor received support : There is in his writings nothing by which the pride of other authors might be gratified, or favour gained ; no exchange of praise, nor solicitation of support.
Seite 464 - Lordship's feelings upon such an occasion by our own, and considering, besides, that our numbers might be inconvenient, we desire, in this manner, affectionately to assure your Lordship, that we regret, with a just...
Seite 318 - The drinker collects his circle ; the circle naturally spreads; of those who are drawn within it, many become the corrupters and centres of sets and circles of their own : every one countenancing, and perhaps emulating the rest, till a whole neighbourhood be infected from the contagion of a single example.
Seite 463 - I am obliged to entreat your assistance. I am now under an arrest for five pounds eighteen shillings. Mr. Strahan, from whom I should have received the necessary help in this case, is not at home; and I am afraid of not finding Mr. Millar. If you will be so good as to send me this sum, I will very gratefully repay you, and add it to all former obligations. I am Sir, Your most obedient and most humble servant, SAMUEL JOHNSON. Gough Square, 16 March '.' In the margin of this letter there is a memorandum...
Seite 379 - I own," added Helve"tius to me, "• although I knew the danger to be greater of harbouring him at Paris than at London ; and although I thought the family of Hanover not only the lawful sovereigns in England, but the only lawful sovereigns in Europe, as having the...