The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: With Murphy's Essay, Volume 1Cowie, 1825 |
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... excellence : they will , therefore , more willingly allow your pretensions as a writer . " " But , " says Mrs. Piozzi , " the features of peculiarity , which mark a cha- racter to all succeeding generations , are slow in coming to their ...
... excellence : they will , therefore , more willingly allow your pretensions as a writer . " " But , " says Mrs. Piozzi , " the features of peculiarity , which mark a cha- racter to all succeeding generations , are slow in coming to their ...
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... excellence of his character , Johnson has left a beautiful testimonial at the end of the Life of Edmund Smith . It is reasonable to conclude , that a mathematician , absorbed in abstract speculations , was not able to find a sphere of ...
... excellence of his character , Johnson has left a beautiful testimonial at the end of the Life of Edmund Smith . It is reasonable to conclude , that a mathematician , absorbed in abstract speculations , was not able to find a sphere of ...
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... excellence to which it is now improved , had its professors looked upon it with the eyes of indif- ferent spectators ; the advances , from the first rude essays , must have been made by men who valued themselves for performances , for ...
... excellence to which it is now improved , had its professors looked upon it with the eyes of indif- ferent spectators ; the advances , from the first rude essays , must have been made by men who valued themselves for performances , for ...
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... excellence , the negative virtues at least were in his power , and though he perhaps could not speak well if he was to try , it was still easy for him not to speak . In forming this opinion of the easiness of secrecy , they seem to have ...
... excellence , the negative virtues at least were in his power , and though he perhaps could not speak well if he was to try , it was still easy for him not to speak . In forming this opinion of the easiness of secrecy , they seem to have ...
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... excellence before us , we may be pardoned though we sink down to humbler virtue , trying , however , to keep our point always in view , and struggling not to lose ground , though we cannot gain it . It is recorded of Sir Mathew Hale ...
... excellence before us , we may be pardoned though we sink down to humbler virtue , trying , however , to keep our point always in view , and struggling not to lose ground , though we cannot gain it . It is recorded of Sir Mathew Hale ...
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