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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... suppose , because they were all atheists . Romilly ( Life , i . 179 ) records the following anecdote , which he had from Diderot in 1781 : - Hume dîna avec une grande com- pagnie chez le Baron d'Holbach . Il était assis à côté du Baron ...
... suppose , because they were all atheists . Romilly ( Life , i . 179 ) records the following anecdote , which he had from Diderot in 1781 : - Hume dîna avec une grande com- pagnie chez le Baron d'Holbach . Il était assis à côté du Baron ...
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... suppose by Mr. Drum- mond , wrote with a generous indignation as follows : ' SIR , ' To MR . WILLIAM DRUMMOND . ' I did not expect to hear that it could be , in an assembly con- verea for the propagation of Christian knowledge , a ...
... suppose by Mr. Drum- mond , wrote with a generous indignation as follows : ' SIR , ' To MR . WILLIAM DRUMMOND . ' I did not expect to hear that it could be , in an assembly con- verea for the propagation of Christian knowledge , a ...
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... suppose , no other man wishes to resemble ' . ' The Papists have , indeed , denied to the laity the use of the bible ; but this prohibition , in few places now very rigorously en- forced , is defended by arguments , which have for their ...
... suppose , no other man wishes to resemble ' . ' The Papists have , indeed , denied to the laity the use of the bible ; but this prohibition , in few places now very rigorously en- forced , is defended by arguments , which have for their ...
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... suppose Lewis the Fourteenth or Charles the Second . ' At Sir Joshua Reynolds's , where a circle of Johnson's friends was collected round him to hear his account of this thrown on it by Johnson's reviews of Birch's History of the Royal ...
... suppose Lewis the Fourteenth or Charles the Second . ' At Sir Joshua Reynolds's , where a circle of Johnson's friends was collected round him to hear his account of this thrown on it by Johnson's reviews of Birch's History of the Royal ...
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... suppose it was to introduce a comedy , when Mr. Bensley solemnly began , ' Press'd with the load of life , the weary mind Surveys the general toil of human kind . ' you misapprehend this dazzling scintillation of conceit in totality ...
... suppose it was to introduce a comedy , when Mr. Bensley solemnly began , ' Press'd with the load of life , the weary mind Surveys the general toil of human kind . ' you misapprehend this dazzling scintillation of conceit in totality ...
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