The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D: In Thirteen Volumes, Volume 14John Stockdale, 1788 |
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... never known before ? Or if fome flight injuries have been offered , if fome of our petty traders have been stopped , our poffeffions threatened , our effects confifcated , our flag infulted , or our ears cropped , have we lain fluggish ...
... never known before ? Or if fome flight injuries have been offered , if fome of our petty traders have been stopped , our poffeffions threatened , our effects confifcated , our flag infulted , or our ears cropped , have we lain fluggish ...
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... never , though cir- " culated through the kingdom with the utmost appli- " cation , had any remarkable influence upon the peo- 3 << ple . I know many perfons of no common capacity , " that hold it fufficient to peruse these papers four ...
... never , though cir- " culated through the kingdom with the utmost appli- " cation , had any remarkable influence upon the peo- 3 << ple . I know many perfons of no common capacity , " that hold it fufficient to peruse these papers four ...
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... never contents himself with one fenfe , when there is another to be found . Nor will the beneficial confequences of this fcheme terminate in the explication of this monument ; they will extend much farther : for the commentators having ...
... never contents himself with one fenfe , when there is another to be found . Nor will the beneficial confequences of this fcheme terminate in the explication of this monument ; they will extend much farther : for the commentators having ...
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... never attempt to fright us with their curfes , or tempt us to a neglect of our own intereft by a profpect of their gratitude . But fo ftrong is their infatuation , that they seem to have forgotten even the primary law of felf ...
... never attempt to fright us with their curfes , or tempt us to a neglect of our own intereft by a profpect of their gratitude . But fo ftrong is their infatuation , that they seem to have forgotten even the primary law of felf ...
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... never prevailed in any fuch degree : fome few of the ancient Barons feem indeed to have been difordered by it ; but the contagion has been for the most part timely checked , and our ladies have been generally free . But there has been ...
... never prevailed in any fuch degree : fome few of the ancient Barons feem indeed to have been difordered by it ; but the contagion has been for the most part timely checked , and our ladies have been generally free . But there has been ...
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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.