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Pàgina xix
... necessary in this work , as the great Lexicographer only stands connected with the department of fictitious narrative by the brief tale of " Rasselas . " A few dates and facts may be shortly recalled , for the sake of uniformity of plan ...
... necessary in this work , as the great Lexicographer only stands connected with the department of fictitious narrative by the brief tale of " Rasselas . " A few dates and facts may be shortly recalled , for the sake of uniformity of plan ...
Pàgina xxi
... . Johnson , or could act more exactly in conformity with them , when the high rank of those with whom he was in company for the time required that he should put the necessary constraint upon himself . SAMUEL JOHNSON . xxi.
... . Johnson , or could act more exactly in conformity with them , when the high rank of those with whom he was in company for the time required that he should put the necessary constraint upon himself . SAMUEL JOHNSON . xxi.
Pàgina xxii
Samuel Johnson. that he should put the necessary constraint upon himself . But during the greater part of his life he had been in a great measure a stranger to the higher society in which such restraint is necessary ; and it may be ...
Samuel Johnson. that he should put the necessary constraint upon himself . But during the greater part of his life he had been in a great measure a stranger to the higher society in which such restraint is necessary ; and it may be ...
Pàgina 37
... necessary to the uniformity of this edition . JOHN MILTON was by birth a gentleman , descended from the proprietors of Milton , near Thame , in Oxfordshire , one of whom forfeited his estate in the times of York and Lancaster . Which ...
... necessary to the uniformity of this edition . JOHN MILTON was by birth a gentleman , descended from the proprietors of Milton , near Thame , in Oxfordshire , one of whom forfeited his estate in the times of York and Lancaster . Which ...
Pàgina 42
... necessary ; our speculations upon matter are voluntary , and at leisure . Physiological learning is of such rare emergence , that one may know another half his life , without being able to estimate his skill in hydrostatics or astronomy ...
... necessary ; our speculations upon matter are voluntary , and at leisure . Physiological learning is of such rare emergence , that one may know another half his life , without being able to estimate his skill in hydrostatics or astronomy ...
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