The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 6F.C. and J. Rivington, 1823 |
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... reason to suspect that his father was a sectary . Whoever he was , he died before the birth of his son , and consequently left him to the care of VOL . VI . B his mother ; whom Wood represents as struggling earnestly to.
... reason to suspect that his father was a sectary . Whoever he was , he died before the birth of his son , and consequently left him to the care of VOL . VI . B his mother ; whom Wood represents as struggling earnestly to.
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... reason- able to appear the champion as the poet of an airy nothing , " and to quarrel às to write for what Cowley might have learned from his master Pindar to call " the dream of a shadow . " 66 It is surely not difficult , in the ...
... reason- able to appear the champion as the poet of an airy nothing , " and to quarrel às to write for what Cowley might have learned from his master Pindar to call " the dream of a shadow . " 66 It is surely not difficult , in the ...
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... at the disposal of another may not promise to aid him in any injurious act , because no power can compel active obedience . He may engage to do nothing , but not to do ill . There is reason to think that Cowley promised little . COWLEY .
... at the disposal of another may not promise to aid him in any injurious act , because no power can compel active obedience . He may engage to do nothing , but not to do ill . There is reason to think that Cowley promised little . COWLEY .
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... reason for supposing that he ever at- tempted practice : but his preparatory studies have contributed something to the honour of his country . Considering Botany as necessary to a physician , he retired into Kent to gather plants ; and ...
... reason for supposing that he ever at- tempted practice : but his preparatory studies have contributed something to the honour of his country . Considering Botany as necessary to a physician , he retired into Kent to gather plants ; and ...
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... reason : it certainly has , in a very great degree , the power of fixing attention and exciting merriment . From the charge of disaffection he ex- culpates himself in his preface , by observing how unlikely it is that , having followed ...
... reason : it certainly has , in a very great degree , the power of fixing attention and exciting merriment . From the charge of disaffection he ex- culpates himself in his preface , by observing how unlikely it is that , having followed ...
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