Life of Johnson: Including Boswell's Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides and Johnson's Diary of A Journey Into North WalesHarper, 1904 - Hebrides (Scotland) |
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... England with David Hume a few weeks before this conversation was held , and was at this time in Chiswick . Hume's Private Corres . pp . 125 , 145 . 2 Rousseau had by this time published his Nouvelle Héloïse and Emile . " Less than three ...
... England with David Hume a few weeks before this conversation was held , and was at this time in Chiswick . Hume's Private Corres . pp . 125 , 145 . 2 Rousseau had by this time published his Nouvelle Héloïse and Emile . " Less than three ...
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... England contend for pre - emi- nence of fame by running : ' Prove by their heels the prowess of the head . ' In this poem there was the following portrait of Johnson : ' Here Johnson comes , -unblest with outward grace , His rigid ...
... England contend for pre - emi- nence of fame by running : ' Prove by their heels the prowess of the head . ' In this poem there was the following portrait of Johnson : ' Here Johnson comes , -unblest with outward grace , His rigid ...
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... England , maintaining the future life of brutes , by an expli- cation of certain parts of the scriptures , was mentioned , and the doctrine insisted on by a gentleman who seemed fond of curious speculation . Johnson , who did not like ...
... England , maintaining the future life of brutes , by an expli- cation of certain parts of the scriptures , was mentioned , and the doctrine insisted on by a gentleman who seemed fond of curious speculation . Johnson , who did not like ...
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... England from ' the boundless liberty with which every man may write his own thoughts . ' See also in his Life of Milton , the passage about Areopagitica , ib . vii . 82. The liberty of the press was likely to be ' a constant topic ...
... England from ' the boundless liberty with which every man may write his own thoughts . ' See also in his Life of Milton , the passage about Areopagitica , ib . vii . 82. The liberty of the press was likely to be ' a constant topic ...
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... England . Here he stayed till 1789 , when Mirabeau moved in the National As- sembly the recall of all the Corsican patriots . Paoli was thereupon appointed by Louis XVI Lieutenant - general and military command- ant in Corsica . He ...
... England . Here he stayed till 1789 , when Mirabeau moved in the National As- sembly the recall of all the Corsican patriots . Paoli was thereupon appointed by Louis XVI Lieutenant - general and military command- ant in Corsica . He ...
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