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The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: Tales and visions: The history of ... - Page 15
by Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787
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The prince of Abissinia [by S. Johnson].

Samuel Johnson - 1783 - 324 pages
...good ; every man has owed much to others, and ought to repay the kindnefs that he has received." " If men were all virtuous, returned the artift, I fhould...through the clouds, neither walls, nor mountains, nor feas, could afford any fecurity. A flight of northern favages might hover in the wind, and light at...
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The history of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia. The vision of Theodore. The ...

Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 534 pages
...good ; every man has owed much to others, and ought to repay the kindnefs that he has received." " If men were all virtuous, returned the artift, I fhould...through the clouds, neither walls, nor mountains, nor feas, could afford any fecurity. A flight of northern favages might hover in the wind, and light at...
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The history of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia. The vision of Theodore. The ...

Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 560 pages
...men were all virtuous, returned the artift, I ihould with great alacrity teach them all to fly. Buts what would be the fecurity of the good, if the bad could at pleafure invade them from the Iky ? Againft an army failing through the clouds, neither walls, nor mountains, nor feas, could afford...
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The Novelist's Magazine, Volume 23

English fiction - 1788 - 778 pages
...repay the k ˇminds that he has received,' ' If men were all virtuone,' returned (ie artift, « I mould with great alacrity teach them all to fly. But what...if the bad could at pleafure invade them from the iky ? Againft an army failing through the clouds, neither walls, nor mountains, nor feas, could afford...
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The Prince of Abissinia: A Tale

Samuel Johnson - Ethiopia - 1790 - 318 pages
...good ; every man has owed much to others, and ought to repay the kindnefs that he has received." " If men were all virtuous," returned the artift, "...through the clouds, neither walls, nor mountains, nor feas, could afford any fecurity. A flight of northern favages might hover in the wind, and light at...
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The Works of Samuel Johnson.LL.D..: A dissertation upon the Greek comedy ...

Samuel Johnson - 1792 - 586 pages
...univerfal good; every man has owed much to others, and ought to repay the kindnefs that he has received." " If men were all virtuous, returned the artift, I fhould...through the clouds, neither walls, nor mountains, nor feas, could afford any fecurity. A flight of northern favages might hover in the wind, and light at...
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Lectures on Natural and Experimental Philosophy: Considered in It ..., Volume 3

George Adams - Science - 1794 - 540 pages
...good -, every man has owed much to others, and ought to repay the kindnefs that he has received.' * If men were all virtuous,' returned the artift,. *I...if the bad could at pleafure invade them from the iky? Againft an army failing through the clouds, neither walls, nor mountains, nor fcas could afford...
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Lectures on Natural and Experimental Philosophy: Considered in It ..., Volume 3

George Adams - Physics - 1794 - 606 pages
...repay the kindnefs that he has received.' ' If men were all virtuous,' returned the art i ft,. 'I mould with great -alacrity teach them all to fly ; but what would be the fccurity of the good, if the bad could at pleafure invade them from the fky ? Againft an army failing...
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The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.

Samuel Johnson - Biography - 1801 - 462 pages
...good ; every man has owed much to cthersv and ought to repay the kindnefs that he has received." " If men were all virtuous, returned the artift, I fhould...alacrity teach them all to fly. But what would be the iecurity of the good, if the bad Could at pleafure invade them from the fky ? Againft an army failing...
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The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.

Samuel Johnson - English literature - 1806 - 376 pages
...repay the kindness that he has received." " If men were all virtuous," returned the artist, " I should with 'great alacrity teach them all to fly. But what would be the security of the good, if the bad could at pleasure invade them from the sky ? Against an army sailing...
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