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Page 221
... manner of detecting them , and the justice of punishing them , in his Dialogues of Dæmonologie , written in the Scottish dialect , and published at Edinburgh . This book was , soon after his accession , reprinted at London , and as the ...
... manner of detecting them , and the justice of punishing them , in his Dialogues of Dæmonologie , written in the Scottish dialect , and published at Edinburgh . This book was , soon after his accession , reprinted at London , and as the ...
Page 300
... manners of a Presbyterian magistrate , and tried to unite the absurdities of both , however distant , in one personage ... manner he would have rewarded or punished his hero , it is now vain to conjecture . His work must have had , as it ...
... manners of a Presbyterian magistrate , and tried to unite the absurdities of both , however distant , in one personage ... manner he would have rewarded or punished his hero , it is now vain to conjecture . His work must have had , as it ...
Page 379
... manner that shall make less impression on the mind . Before the profound observers of the present race repose too ... manners , he must be allowed to stand perhaps the first of the first rank . His humour which , as Steele observes , is ...
... manner that shall make less impression on the mind . Before the profound observers of the present race repose too ... manners , he must be allowed to stand perhaps the first of the first rank . His humour which , as Steele observes , is ...
Contents
JOHNSON ON SHAKESPEARE | 43 |
Note on the Text and Acknowledgment | 58 |
EARLY PERIODICAL CRITICISM | 59 |
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