The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: With Murphy's Essay, Volume 6Cowie, 1825 |
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... hope every reader will rejoice that this cargo of sacrilege was lost at sea . Let us not , however , make too much haste to despise our neighbours . Our own cathedrals are mouldering by unre- garded dilapidation . It seems to be part of ...
... hope every reader will rejoice that this cargo of sacrilege was lost at sea . Let us not , however , make too much haste to despise our neighbours . Our own cathedrals are mouldering by unre- garded dilapidation . It seems to be part of ...
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... hope and comfort to him who stands trembling on the brink of his own climacterick . Length of life is distributed impartially to very different modes of life in very different climates ; and the mountains have no greater examples of age ...
... hope and comfort to him who stands trembling on the brink of his own climacterick . Length of life is distributed impartially to very different modes of life in very different climates ; and the mountains have no greater examples of age ...
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... hope from malice or from favour . The roads are secure in those places through which , forty years ago , no traveller could pass without a convoy . All trials of right by the sword are forgotten , and the mean are in as little danger ...
... hope from malice or from favour . The roads are secure in those places through which , forty years ago , no traveller could pass without a convoy . All trials of right by the sword are forgotten , and the mean are in as little danger ...
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... hope of life . We resolved not to embarrass a family , in a time of so much sorrow , if any other expedient could be found ; and as the island of Ulva was over - against us , it was deter- mined that we should pass the strait , and have ...
... hope of life . We resolved not to embarrass a family , in a time of so much sorrow , if any other expedient could be found ; and as the island of Ulva was over - against us , it was deter- mined that we should pass the strait , and have ...
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... hope neither Mr. Boswell nor myself will be suspected of a disposition to refuse . The elder of the ladies read the English service . Inch Kenneth was once a seminary of ecclesiasticks , subordinate , I suppose , to Icolmkill . Sir ...
... hope neither Mr. Boswell nor myself will be suspected of a disposition to refuse . The elder of the ladies read the English service . Inch Kenneth was once a seminary of ecclesiasticks , subordinate , I suppose , to Icolmkill . Sir ...
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