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Page 21
... 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 exhortations previous ...
... 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 exhortations previous ...
Page 39
... labour of his brain for fupport , he , to improve the correfpondence he had formed , thought proper to discover himself , and in his real name to communicate to Cave a project which he had formed , and which the following letter will ...
... labour of his brain for fupport , he , to improve the correfpondence he had formed , thought proper to discover himself , and in his real name to communicate to Cave a project which he had formed , and which the following letter will ...
Page 54
... labour and ingenuity , that induced Johnson ever after to call Dodfley his patron . It is pretty certain that in his offer of the poem to Dodfley , Cave ftipulated for the Printing of it , for it came abroad in the year above- mentioned ...
... labour and ingenuity , that induced Johnson ever after to call Dodfley his patron . It is pretty certain that in his offer of the poem to Dodfley , Cave ftipulated for the Printing of it , for it came abroad in the year above- mentioned ...
Page 78
... labour of his life to conquer . They who were witneffes of Johnson's perfevering temperance in the article of drinking , for , at leaft , the latter half of his life , will scarcely believe that , during part of the former , he was a ...
... labour of his life to conquer . They who were witneffes of Johnson's perfevering temperance in the article of drinking , for , at leaft , the latter half of his life , will scarcely believe that , during part of the former , he was a ...
Page 83
... labours fhall be crown'd with large fuccefs ; The mufe's aid thy magazine shall bless . No page more grateful to th ' harmonious nine Than that wherein thy labours we furvey : Where folemn themes in fuller fplendor shine , ( Delightful ...
... labours fhall be crown'd with large fuccefs ; The mufe's aid thy magazine shall bless . No page more grateful to th ' harmonious nine Than that wherein thy labours we furvey : Where folemn themes in fuller fplendor shine , ( Delightful ...
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