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This pamphlet is , without flattery to its author , as just and well - written a piece of
its kind as I ever faw . It is certainly penned with equal accuracy and spirit , of
which I am so much the better judge , as I knew many of the facts to be strictly true
...
This pamphlet is , without flattery to its author , as just and well - written a piece of
its kind as I ever faw . It is certainly penned with equal accuracy and spirit , of
which I am so much the better judge , as I knew many of the facts to be strictly true
...
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Servations are short , significant , and just , as his narrative is remarkably smooth
, and well disposed . His reflections open to all the recesses of the human heart ;
and , in a word , a more just or pleasant , a more engaging , or a more ...
Servations are short , significant , and just , as his narrative is remarkably smooth
, and well disposed . His reflections open to all the recesses of the human heart ;
and , in a word , a more just or pleasant , a more engaging , or a more ...
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Van ning to arrange their hampers just come in from the country . Johnson made
some attempts to help them ; but the honest gardeners stared fo at his figure and
manner , and odd interference , that he soon saw his services were not relished ...
Van ning to arrange their hampers just come in from the country . Johnson made
some attempts to help them ; but the honest gardeners stared fo at his figure and
manner , and odd interference , that he soon saw his services were not relished ...
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The “ Elegy on the Death of Dr . Johnson , ” by Samuel Hobhouse , Esq . 4to ,
1785 , was distinguished from the mass of elegiac verses on that occasion ; and
the just , discriminative , and elegant “ Poetical Review of the Moral and Literary ...
The “ Elegy on the Death of Dr . Johnson , ” by Samuel Hobhouse , Esq . 4to ,
1785 , was distinguished from the mass of elegiac verses on that occasion ; and
the just , discriminative , and elegant “ Poetical Review of the Moral and Literary ...
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... and give him a just claim to a distinguished rank among the best and ableft
writers that England has produced . ” The estimate of his literary character given
by Mr . Murphy in his “ Effay , ” is , with a very few exceptions , fair , candid , and
just .
... and give him a just claim to a distinguished rank among the best and ableft
writers that England has produced . ” The estimate of his literary character given
by Mr . Murphy in his “ Effay , ” is , with a very few exceptions , fair , candid , and
just .
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