The Works of Samuel Johnson,5: With Murphy's Essay, Volume 6George Cowie and Company, 1825 - 715 pages |
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... known , as well as those with which we are , by accident , less acquainted ; and if they are all rejected , how will the reader be relieved from difficulties produced by allusions to the crocodile , the cha- meleon , the ichneumon , and ...
... known , as well as those with which we are , by accident , less acquainted ; and if they are all rejected , how will the reader be relieved from difficulties produced by allusions to the crocodile , the cha- meleon , the ichneumon , and ...
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... known ; and , among the Italians , Cres- cembeni has not thought it unnecessary to inform his coun- trymen of the words which , in compliance with different rhymes , are allowed to be differently spelt , and of which the number is now ...
... known ; and , among the Italians , Cres- cembeni has not thought it unnecessary to inform his coun- trymen of the words which , in compliance with different rhymes , are allowed to be differently spelt , and of which the number is now ...
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... known by having no sign of particularity , and their various senses will be supported by authorities of all ages . The words appropriated to poetry will be distinguished by some mark prefixed , or will be known by having no authorities ...
... known by having no sign of particularity , and their various senses will be supported by authorities of all ages . The words appropriated to poetry will be distinguished by some mark prefixed , or will be known by having no authorities ...
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... known to etymo- logists , little regard is to be shewn in the deduction of one language from another . Such defects are not errours in orthography , but spots of barbarity impressed so deep in the English language , that criticism can ...
... known to etymo- logists , little regard is to be shewn in the deduction of one language from another . Such defects are not errours in orthography , but spots of barbarity impressed so deep in the English language , that criticism can ...
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... known , to be happily illustrated . To explain , requires the use of terms less ab- struse than that which is to be explained , and such terms cannot always be found ; for as nothing can be proved but by supposing something intuitively ...
... known , to be happily illustrated . To explain , requires the use of terms less ab- struse than that which is to be explained , and such terms cannot always be found ; for as nothing can be proved but by supposing something intuitively ...
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