The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.J. Buckland, 1787 - 605 sider |
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... ferve , or in other words become flaves to the Turks : --- ' a message , ' fays Lobo , which filled us with furprise ; it having never been known that one of thefe lords had ever abandoned any whom he had taken under his protection ...
... ferve , or in other words become flaves to the Turks : --- ' a message , ' fays Lobo , which filled us with furprise ; it having never been known that one of thefe lords had ever abandoned any whom he had taken under his protection ...
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... ferve to refute an affertion in an anonymous account of Johnfon's life , that he was in- troduced to the acquaintance of Cave by Savage . 9 litical litical pamphlets ; but of a work that fhould com- DR . SAMUEL JOHNSON . 29 Your humble ...
... ferve to refute an affertion in an anonymous account of Johnfon's life , that he was in- troduced to the acquaintance of Cave by Savage . 9 litical litical pamphlets ; but of a work that fhould com- DR . SAMUEL JOHNSON . 29 Your humble ...
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... ferve the purpofe of future in- ftructors of youth , I here infert it : When the introduction or formation of nouns and verbs is perfectly mastered , the pupils learn Corderius , by Mr. Clarke ; beginning at the fame time to translate ...
... ferve the purpofe of future in- ftructors of youth , I here infert it : When the introduction or formation of nouns and verbs is perfectly mastered , the pupils learn Corderius , by Mr. Clarke ; beginning at the fame time to translate ...
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... ferve the poor man , without my adding any more to the trou- ⚫ble I have already given you , than affuring you that ' I am , with great truth , " Your faithful humble fervant , . Sir , Trentham , August 1 , 1737 . Gower . ' If ever ...
... ferve the poor man , without my adding any more to the trou- ⚫ble I have already given you , than affuring you that ' I am , with great truth , " Your faithful humble fervant , . Sir , Trentham , August 1 , 1737 . Gower . ' If ever ...
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... ferve no good purpose , but , on the contrary , perpetuate that enmity between the friends to and opponents of our ecclefiaftical and civil establishment , which they ་ • I once , while I was chairman of the Middlesex feffions , tried ...
... ferve no good purpose , but , on the contrary , perpetuate that enmity between the friends to and opponents of our ecclefiaftical and civil establishment , which they ་ • I once , while I was chairman of the Middlesex feffions , tried ...
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Side 550 - The busy day, the peaceful night, Unfelt, uncounted, glided by ; His frame was firm, his powers were bright, Though now his eightieth year was nigh. Then, with no throbs of fiery pain, No cold gradations of decay, Death broke at once the vital chain, And freed his soul the nearest way.
Side 484 - I was born in the eighth climate, but seem to be framed and constellated unto all. I am no plant that will not prosper out of a garden. All places, all airs, make unto me one country ; I am in England everywhere, and under any meridian.
Side 198 - For we that live to please, must please to live. Then prompt no more the follies you decry, As tyrants doom their tools of guilt to die...
Side 289 - I have familiarized the terms of philosophy, by applying them to popular ideas, but have rarely admitted any word not authorized by former writers...
Side 360 - I look upon this as I did upon the Dictionary: it is all work, and my inducement to it is not love or desire of fame, but the want of money, which is the only motive to writing that I know of.
Side 342 - Have put their whole drama and epick to flight ; In satires, epistles, and odes, would they cope, Their numbers retreat before Dryden and Pope ; And Johnson, well arm'd like a hero of yore, Has beat forty French *, and will beat forty more...
Side 62 - ... but, unfortunately, he is not capable of receiving their bounty, which would make him happy for life...
Side 126 - Excursions of fancy, and flights of oratory, are indeed, pardonable in young men, but in no other; and it would surely contribute more, even to the purpose for which some gentlemen appear to speak, (that of depreciating the conduct of the...
Side 347 - Certainly, it is heaven upon earth, to have a man's mind move in charity, rest in providence, and turn upon the poles of truth.
Side 492 - That our ancestors, who first settled these colonies, were at the time of their emigration from the mother country, entitled to all the rights, liberties, and immunities of free and natural-born subjects, within the realm of England.