The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D: In Thirteen Volumes, Volume 14John Stockdale, 1788 |
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... myself to facrifice the honour of this monument to the love of truth , none who are unacquainted with the fondness of a commentator will be able to conceive . But this in- stance will be , I hope , fufficient to convince the public ...
... myself to facrifice the honour of this monument to the love of truth , none who are unacquainted with the fondness of a commentator will be able to conceive . But this in- stance will be , I hope , fufficient to convince the public ...
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... myself not yet able fully to comprehend . The following explications , therefore , are by no means laid down as certain and indubitable truths , but as conjec- tures not always wholly fatisfactory even to myself , and which I had not ...
... myself not yet able fully to comprehend . The following explications , therefore , are by no means laid down as certain and indubitable truths , but as conjec- tures not always wholly fatisfactory even to myself , and which I had not ...
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... myself with collecting , into one view , the feveral properties of this peftiferous brood , with which we are threatened , as hints to more fagacious and fortunate readers , who , when they fhall find any red animal that ranges ...
... myself with collecting , into one view , the feveral properties of this peftiferous brood , with which we are threatened , as hints to more fagacious and fortunate readers , who , when they fhall find any red animal that ranges ...
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... myself in dif- ficulties , from which the ableft interpreter would find it no eafy matter to get free . Being therefore convinced upon an attentive and de- liberate review of these obfervations , and a confultation with my friends , of ...
... myself in dif- ficulties , from which the ableft interpreter would find it no eafy matter to get free . Being therefore convinced upon an attentive and de- liberate review of these obfervations , and a confultation with my friends , of ...
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... myself to en- quire with great diligence into the real motives of their conduct , and to discover what principle it was that had force to infpire fuch unextinguishable zeal , and to ani- mate fuch unwearied efforts . For this reafon I ...
... myself to en- quire with great diligence into the real motives of their conduct , and to discover what principle it was that had force to infpire fuch unextinguishable zeal , and to ani- mate fuch unwearied efforts . For this reafon I ...
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Page 96 - It will have blood ; they say, blood will have blood : Stones have been known to move, and trees to speak ; Augurs, and understood relations, have By magot-pies, and choughs, and rooks, brought forth The secret'st man of blood.