The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D., Band 1Talboys and Wheeler, 1826 |
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... character and conduct of my illustrious friend ; who , I trust , will , by a true and fair delineation , be vindi- cated both from the injurious misrepresentations of this author , and from the slighter aspersions of a lady who once ...
... character and conduct of my illustrious friend ; who , I trust , will , by a true and fair delineation , be vindi- cated both from the injurious misrepresentations of this author , and from the slighter aspersions of a lady who once ...
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... character is more fully understood and illustrated . Indeed I cannot conceive a more perfect mode of writ- ing any man's life , than not only relating all the most im- portant events of it in their order , but interweaving what he ...
... character is more fully understood and illustrated . Indeed I cannot conceive a more perfect mode of writ- ing any man's life , than not only relating all the most im- portant events of it in their order , but interweaving what he ...
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... characters adorned with uni form panegyrick , and not to be known from one another but by extrinsick and casual circumstances . Let me remem- ber , ' says Hale , ' when I find myself inclined to pity a cri- minal , that there is ...
... characters adorned with uni form panegyrick , and not to be known from one another but by extrinsick and casual circumstances . Let me remem- ber , ' says Hale , ' when I find myself inclined to pity a cri- minal , that there is ...
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... character , is , I trust , too well established in the judgment of mankind to be at all shaken by a sneering observation of Mr. Mason , in his Memoirs of Mr. William Whitehead , in which there is literally no life , ' but a mere dry ...
... character , is , I trust , too well established in the judgment of mankind to be at all shaken by a sneering observation of Mr. Mason , in his Memoirs of Mr. William Whitehead , in which there is literally no life , ' but a mere dry ...
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... character , which represents him as careful of his health and negli- gent of his life . " But biography has often been allotted to writers who seem very little acquainted with the nature of their task , or very negligent about the ...
... character , which represents him as careful of his health and negli- gent of his life . " But biography has often been allotted to writers who seem very little acquainted with the nature of their task , or very negligent about the ...
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