The Works of Samuel Johnson,5: With Murphy's Essay, Volume 6George Cowie and Company, 1825 - 715 pages |
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... expence of particular propriety . Among other derivatives I have been careful to insert and elucidate the anomalous plurals of nouns and preterites of verbs , which in the Teutonick dialects are very frequent , and , though familiar to ...
... expence of particular propriety . Among other derivatives I have been careful to insert and elucidate the anomalous plurals of nouns and preterites of verbs , which in the Teutonick dialects are very frequent , and , though familiar to ...
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... expence not only of likelihood , but of possibility . These faults Pope has endeavoured , with more zeal and judgment , to transfer to his imagined interpolators . We need not wonder to find Hector quoting Aristotle , when we see the ...
... expence not only of likelihood , but of possibility . These faults Pope has endeavoured , with more zeal and judgment , to transfer to his imagined interpolators . We need not wonder to find Hector quoting Aristotle , when we see the ...
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... expence of much incongruity . To remark the folly of the fiction , the absurdity of the conduct , the confusion of the names , and manners of different times , and the impossi- bility of the events in any system of life , were to waste ...
... expence of much incongruity . To remark the folly of the fiction , the absurdity of the conduct , the confusion of the names , and manners of different times , and the impossi- bility of the events in any system of life , were to waste ...
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... expence of volumes , by which neither instruction nor en- tertainment could be afforded , from which only the book- seller could expect advantage , and of which the only use must cease at the dispersion of the library . Nor could the ...
... expence of volumes , by which neither instruction nor en- tertainment could be afforded , from which only the book- seller could expect advantage , and of which the only use must cease at the dispersion of the library . Nor could the ...
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... expence above that of a common catalogue . To shew that this collection deserves a particular degree of regard from the learned and studious , that it excels any library that was ever yet offered to public sale , in the value as well as ...
... expence above that of a common catalogue . To shew that this collection deserves a particular degree of regard from the learned and studious , that it excels any library that was ever yet offered to public sale , in the value as well as ...
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