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... doubt , if his discourse at other periods had been collected with the same attention , the whole tenour of what he uttered would have been found equally excellent . His strong , clear , and animated enforcement of reli- gion , morality ...
... doubt , if his discourse at other periods had been collected with the same attention , the whole tenour of what he uttered would have been found equally excellent . His strong , clear , and animated enforcement of reli- gion , morality ...
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... doubt I should not have been very prompt to gratify sir John Hawkins with any compliment in his lifetime , I do now frankly acknowledge , that , in my opinion , his volume , however inadequate and improper as a life of Dr. Johnson , and ...
... doubt I should not have been very prompt to gratify sir John Hawkins with any compliment in his lifetime , I do now frankly acknowledge , that , in my opinion , his volume , however inadequate and improper as a life of Dr. Johnson , and ...
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... doubt . For there is no in stance of any man , whose history has been minutely re- lated , that did not in every part of life discover the same proportion of intellectual vigour . " In all such investigations it is certainly unwise to ...
... doubt . For there is no in stance of any man , whose history has been minutely re- lated , that did not in every part of life discover the same proportion of intellectual vigour . " In all such investigations it is certainly unwise to ...
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... doubt of the truth of this anecdote , for she had heard it from his mother . So difficult is it to obtain an authentick relation of facts , and such authority may there be for errour ; for he assured me , that his father made the verses ...
... doubt of the truth of this anecdote , for she had heard it from his mother . So difficult is it to obtain an authentick relation of facts , and such authority may there be for errour ; for he assured me , that his father made the verses ...
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... doubt , etc. I think the most clear of all his later writings ; and in recommend- ing it to you , I shall say no more or less than what you will see he says in his Advertisement to the Reader . " In a letter addressed to the above ...
... doubt , etc. I think the most clear of all his later writings ; and in recommend- ing it to you , I shall say no more or less than what you will see he says in his Advertisement to the Reader . " In a letter addressed to the above ...
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