Boswell's Life of Johnson ...H. Frowde, 1904 |
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... reason I had to hope for the countenance of that venerable Gentleman to this Work , will appear from what he wrote to me upon a former occasion from Oxford , November 17 , 1785 : - ' Dear Sir , I hazard this letter , not knowing where ...
... reason I had to hope for the countenance of that venerable Gentleman to this Work , will appear from what he wrote to me upon a former occasion from Oxford , November 17 , 1785 : - ' Dear Sir , I hazard this letter , not knowing where ...
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James Boswell. 1709 ] ANECDOTES 27 there is no reason to doubt . For , there is no instance of any man , whose history has been minutely related , that did not in every part of life discover the same proportion of intellectual vigour ...
James Boswell. 1709 ] ANECDOTES 27 there is no reason to doubt . For , there is no instance of any man , whose history has been minutely related , that did not in every part of life discover the same proportion of intellectual vigour ...
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... reason , the disturbance or obscuration of that faculty was the evil most to be dreaded . Insanity , therefore , was the object of his most dismal apprehension ; and he fancied himself seized by it , or approaching to it , at the very ...
... reason , the disturbance or obscuration of that faculty was the evil most to be dreaded . Insanity , therefore , was the object of his most dismal apprehension ; and he fancied himself seized by it , or approaching to it , at the very ...
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... reason , I believe , to doubt the veracity of Cave . It is , however , remarkable , that none of these letters are in the years during which Johnson alone furnished the Debates , and one of them is in the very year after he ceased from ...
... reason , I believe , to doubt the veracity of Cave . It is , however , remarkable , that none of these letters are in the years during which Johnson alone furnished the Debates , and one of them is in the very year after he ceased from ...
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... support what appears to me most consonant to grammar and reason . Ausonius thought that modesty forbade him to 1 September 22 , 1777 , going from Ashbourne in Derbyshire , to see Islam . 126 THE EARL OF ORRERY [ 1747 plead inability for.
... support what appears to me most consonant to grammar and reason . Ausonius thought that modesty forbade him to 1 September 22 , 1777 , going from Ashbourne in Derbyshire , to see Islam . 126 THE EARL OF ORRERY [ 1747 plead inability for.
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