The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: With Critical Observations on His WorksDoig and Stirling, 1815 - 639 páginas |
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... persons , and so much enriched our national stock of biography , criticism , and moral instruction , have been related by friend and foe , by pane- gyrists and satirical defamers , by the lovers of anecdote , and the followers of party ...
... persons , and so much enriched our national stock of biography , criticism , and moral instruction , have been related by friend and foe , by pane- gyrists and satirical defamers , by the lovers of anecdote , and the followers of party ...
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... person who is the subject of his biographical commemora- tion . The ponderous incumbrance of foreign matter seems to overload the memory of his deceased friend , and , in the account of his own . life , to leave him scarcely visible ...
... person who is the subject of his biographical commemora- tion . The ponderous incumbrance of foreign matter seems to overload the memory of his deceased friend , and , in the account of his own . life , to leave him scarcely visible ...
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... because we have seen greatness in the man . Hence , in our fondness for the mar- vellous , the traditions of the nursery respect- * Life of Fenton . ing such persons are amplified beyond the bounds of credibility DR JOHNSON . 11.
... because we have seen greatness in the man . Hence , in our fondness for the mar- vellous , the traditions of the nursery respect- * Life of Fenton . ing such persons are amplified beyond the bounds of credibility DR JOHNSON . 11.
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With Critical Observations on His Works Robert Anderson. ing such persons are amplified beyond the bounds of credibility , and recited with all the confidence of truth . Every great genius must begin with a pro- digy ; and it is not to ...
With Critical Observations on His Works Robert Anderson. ing such persons are amplified beyond the bounds of credibility , and recited with all the confidence of truth . Every great genius must begin with a pro- digy ; and it is not to ...
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... persons ; though it must be acknowledged , that weak minds , from an erroneous supposition that no man is in a state of grace who has not felt a particular conversion , have , in some cases , brought a de- gree of ridicule upon them ; a ...
... persons ; though it must be acknowledged , that weak minds , from an erroneous supposition that no man is in a state of grace who has not felt a particular conversion , have , in some cases , brought a de- gree of ridicule upon them ; a ...
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