The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. |
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Page 2
... hope of preferment by the want of a vice , namely , hypocrify . It was fuppofed that the parfon in Hogarth's modern midnight converfation , was intended to represent him in his hour of feftivity , four in the morning . and applaufe . It ...
... hope of preferment by the want of a vice , namely , hypocrify . It was fuppofed that the parfon in Hogarth's modern midnight converfation , was intended to represent him in his hour of feftivity , four in the morning . and applaufe . It ...
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... hope to keep his afcendancy . He was uncommonly inquifitive , and his memory fo tenacious , that whatever he read or heard he never forgot . I remember rehearsing to him eighteen verfes , which after a little paufe he re- peated ...
... hope to keep his afcendancy . He was uncommonly inquifitive , and his memory fo tenacious , that whatever he read or heard he never forgot . I remember rehearsing to him eighteen verfes , which after a little paufe he re- peated ...
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... hope of mending the fituation of the inferior clergy . An incrieafe of income would raife them to a condition of employing substitutes whom mere neceffity would compel to the performance of their duty , and thefe would have the fame ...
... hope of mending the fituation of the inferior clergy . An incrieafe of income would raife them to a condition of employing substitutes whom mere neceffity would compel to the performance of their duty , and thefe would have the fame ...
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... hope for till the death of my mother , ( which I pray may be late ) , that is to fay , twenty pounds ; fo that I have my fortune to make , and care must be taken , that in the mean time , the powers of my mind may not grow languid ...
... hope for till the death of my mother , ( which I pray may be late ) , that is to fay , twenty pounds ; fo that I have my fortune to make , and care must be taken , that in the mean time , the powers of my mind may not grow languid ...
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... Hope . But labour and patience produced in time , a hope that the miffion would not be fruitless : the number of their profelytes was , at one period , fo great , that the corporal ftrength of the fathers was exhaufted in the ...
... Hope . But labour and patience produced in time , a hope that the miffion would not be fruitless : the number of their profelytes was , at one period , fo great , that the corporal ftrength of the fathers was exhaufted in the ...
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