The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.J. Buckland ... [and 39 others], 1787 - 602 sivua |
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... history , and concurred to recommend that precept of the wife son of Sirach , in which we are exhorted to praise famous men , such as by their counfels and by their knowledge of learning were meet for the people , —and were wife and ...
... history , and concurred to recommend that precept of the wife son of Sirach , in which we are exhorted to praise famous men , such as by their counfels and by their knowledge of learning were meet for the people , —and were wife and ...
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... history of England , and put a stop to the completion of it . The ritual for this is to be found in Bishop Sparrow's collection of articles , canons , & c . and alfo in all or most of the impreffions of the Common Prayer Book , printed ...
... history of England , and put a stop to the completion of it . The ritual for this is to be found in Bishop Sparrow's collection of articles , canons , & c . and alfo in all or most of the impreffions of the Common Prayer Book , printed ...
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... history . When he was about three years old , his mother had a brood of eleven ducklings , which the permitted him to call his own . It hap- pened that in playing about he trod on and killed one of them , upon which running to his ...
... history . When he was about three years old , his mother had a brood of eleven ducklings , which the permitted him to call his own . It hap- pened that in playing about he trod on and killed one of them , upon which running to his ...
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... history of Abyffinia , and other countries mentioned by the original author . The preface , which bears ftronger marks of John- fon's hand than any part of the work , is calculated to attract attention and credit : it commends the ...
... history of Abyffinia , and other countries mentioned by the original author . The preface , which bears ftronger marks of John- fon's hand than any part of the work , is calculated to attract attention and credit : it commends the ...
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... Historical Register , containing , an impartial relation of all trans- actions foreign and domeftic , by a body of men , from whom few would have expected any thing of the kind . In fhort , the editors of the Hiftorical Register , were ...
... Historical Register , containing , an impartial relation of all trans- actions foreign and domeftic , by a body of men , from whom few would have expected any thing of the kind . In fhort , the editors of the Hiftorical Register , were ...
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Sivu 550 - The busy day, the peaceful night, Unfelt, uncounted, glided by ; His frame was firm, his powers were bright, Though now his eightieth year was nigh. Then, with no throbs of fiery pain, No cold gradations of decay, Death broke at once the vital chain, And freed his soul the nearest way.
Sivu 484 - I was born in the eighth climate, but seem to be framed and constellated unto all. I am no plant that will not prosper out of a garden. All places, all airs, make unto me one country ; I am in England everywhere, and under any meridian.
Sivu 198 - For we that live to please, must please to live. Then prompt no more the follies you decry, As tyrants doom their tools of guilt to die...
Sivu 289 - I have familiarized the terms of philosophy, by applying them to popular ideas, but have rarely admitted any word not authorized by former writers...
Sivu 360 - I look upon this as I did upon the Dictionary: it is all work, and my inducement to it is not love or desire of fame, but the want of money, which is the only motive to writing that I know of.
Sivu 342 - Have put their whole drama and epick to flight ; In satires, epistles, and odes, would they cope, Their numbers retreat before Dryden and Pope ; And Johnson, well arm'd like a hero of yore, Has beat forty French *, and will beat forty more...
Sivu 62 - ... but, unfortunately, he is not capable of receiving their bounty, which would make him happy for life...
Sivu 126 - Excursions of fancy, and flights of oratory, are indeed, pardonable in young men, but in no other; and it would surely contribute more, even to the purpose for which some gentlemen appear to speak, (that of depreciating the conduct of the...
Sivu 347 - Certainly, it is heaven upon earth, to have a man's mind move in charity, rest in providence, and turn upon the poles of truth.
Sivu 492 - That our ancestors, who first settled these colonies, were at the time of their emigration from the mother country, entitled to all the rights, liberties, and immunities of free and natural-born subjects, within the realm of England.