Boswell's Life of Johnson, Količina 1Henry Frowde, 1904 - 704 strani |
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... LANGUAGE . acknowl . An Account of an Attempt to ascertain the Longitude at Sea , by an exact Theory of the Variations of the Magnetical Needle , with a Table of the Variations at the most remarkable Cities in Europe from the year 1660 ...
... LANGUAGE . acknowl . An Account of an Attempt to ascertain the Longitude at Sea , by an exact Theory of the Variations of the Magnetical Needle , with a Table of the Variations at the most remarkable Cities in Europe from the year 1660 ...
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... language of translation being adapted to the thoughts of another person , insensibly follows their cast , and , as it were , runs into a mould that is ready prepared . Thus , for instance , taking the first sentence that occurs at the ...
... language of translation being adapted to the thoughts of another person , insensibly follows their cast , and , as it were , runs into a mould that is ready prepared . Thus , for instance , taking the first sentence that occurs at the ...
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... language , in which few could have equalled , and none have surpassed him . He who could display eloquence and wit in defence of the decision of the House of Commons upon Mr. Wilkes's election for Middlesex , and of the unconstitutional ...
... language , in which few could have equalled , and none have surpassed him . He who could display eloquence and wit in defence of the decision of the House of Commons upon Mr. Wilkes's election for Middlesex , and of the unconstitutional ...
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... LANGUAGE , was announced to the world , by the publication of its Plan or Prospectus . How long this immense undertaking had been the object of his contemplation , I do not know . I once asked him by what means he had attained to that ...
... LANGUAGE , was announced to the world , by the publication of its Plan or Prospectus . How long this immense undertaking had been the object of his contemplation , I do not know . I once asked him by what means he had attained to that ...
Stran 125
... language of it is unexceptionably excellent ; it being altogether free from that inflation of style , and those uncommon but apt and energetick words , which in some of his writings have been censured , with more petulance than justice ...
... language of it is unexceptionably excellent ; it being altogether free from that inflation of style , and those uncommon but apt and energetick words , which in some of his writings have been censured , with more petulance than justice ...
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