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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 ...
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... necessary to make it intelligible . Pope has some epitaphs without names ; which are therefore epitaphs to be let , occupied indeed for the present , but hardly appropriated . The Ode on Wit is almost without a rival . It was about the ...
... necessary to make it intelligible . Pope has some epitaphs without names ; which are therefore epitaphs to be let , occupied indeed for the present , but hardly appropriated . The Ode on Wit is almost without a rival . It was about the ...
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... 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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