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... instances , the avoid- ing of egotifms had been extremely difficult , and in many impoffible . SAMUEL JOHNSON , the fubject of the following memoirs , was the elder of the two fons of Michael Johnson , of the city of Lichfield ...
... instances , the avoid- ing of egotifms had been extremely difficult , and in many impoffible . SAMUEL JOHNSON , the fubject of the following memoirs , was the elder of the two fons of Michael Johnson , of the city of Lichfield ...
Page 89
... instances : the refolution of the commons was never enforced , and the debates were publifhed with impunity . I will not difgrace my page by the infertion of any of those barbarous appellations which Cave had invented , and which , I ...
... instances : the refolution of the commons was never enforced , and the debates were publifhed with impunity . I will not difgrace my page by the infertion of any of those barbarous appellations which Cave had invented , and which , I ...
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... instances , and faw , in falfhood of all kinds , a turpitude that he could never he tho- roughly reconciled to : and though the fraud was per- haps not greater than the fictitious relations in Sir Thomas More's Utopia , lord Bacon's ...
... instances , and faw , in falfhood of all kinds , a turpitude that he could never he tho- roughly reconciled to : and though the fraud was per- haps not greater than the fictitious relations in Sir Thomas More's Utopia , lord Bacon's ...
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... instance . A lady of high quality , and a relation of one who had the ftory from her own mouth and told it me , having been married fome few years but never having brought her lord a child , was furprised one morning by a vifit from ...
... instance . A lady of high quality , and a relation of one who had the ftory from her own mouth and told it me , having been married fome few years but never having brought her lord a child , was furprised one morning by a vifit from ...
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... instances of men who lived by the profeffion of writing and thought it an eligible one , and fhould now proceed to relate the fubfequent events of Dr. Johnson's life , and mark the state of his mind at different periods , but that I ...
... instances of men who lived by the profeffion of writing and thought it an eligible one , and fhould now proceed to relate the fubfequent events of Dr. Johnson's life , and mark the state of his mind at different periods , but that I ...
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