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... affecting it , the seniors in the fchool looked on him as their head B 3 The reader will find much curious matter relating to the royal touch , in Mr. Barrington's obfervations on ancient statutes 107 , and in Chambers's dictionary ...
... affecting it , the seniors in the fchool looked on him as their head B 3 The reader will find much curious matter relating to the royal touch , in Mr. Barrington's obfervations on ancient statutes 107 , and in Chambers's dictionary ...
Page 15
... affected fi- lence , and fed his own vanity with their admiration . and conjectures . ' It is little less than certain , that his own indigence , and the inability of his father to help him , called Johnson from the univerfity fooner ...
... affected fi- lence , and fed his own vanity with their admiration . and conjectures . ' It is little less than certain , that his own indigence , and the inability of his father to help him , called Johnson from the univerfity fooner ...
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... affecting eloquence : to give it at large would be to tranfgrefs the limits I have prescribed myself , and to abridge it would injure it : I will do neither ; but referring the reader to the historian himself , will relate it as a bare ...
... affecting eloquence : to give it at large would be to tranfgrefs the limits I have prescribed myself , and to abridge it would injure it : I will do neither ; but referring the reader to the historian himself , will relate it as a bare ...
Page 69
... affecting the caufe of liberty . To exprefs their refentment of this injury , they ad- vised him to fend it to the prefs , and by a fubfcription to the publication , of near a thoufand perfons , encourag- ed others to the like attempts ...
... affecting the caufe of liberty . To exprefs their refentment of this injury , they ad- vised him to fend it to the prefs , and by a fubfcription to the publication , of near a thoufand perfons , encourag- ed others to the like attempts ...
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... affected to call it , that the peafantry of a country was not an ade- quate defence against an invasion of it by an armed force . He almost afferted in terms , that the fucceffion to the crown had been illegally interrupted , and that ...
... affected to call it , that the peafantry of a country was not an ade- quate defence against an invasion of it by an armed force . He almost afferted in terms , that the fucceffion to the crown had been illegally interrupted , and that ...
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