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Pàgina vii
... remarks on human nature are eminently shrewd and profound . " This great work , like many other great works , owed its origin to the spur of competition . By long prescription , unsupported apparently by any legal right , the " Trade ...
... remarks on human nature are eminently shrewd and profound . " This great work , like many other great works , owed its origin to the spur of competition . By long prescription , unsupported apparently by any legal right , the " Trade ...
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... remarks upon " Rasselas , " and the character of its great author . SAMUEL JOHNSON was born and educated in Lichfield , where his father was a country bookseller of some eminence , 3 since he belonged to its magistracy . He was born ...
... remarks upon " Rasselas , " and the character of its great author . SAMUEL JOHNSON was born and educated in Lichfield , where his father was a country bookseller of some eminence , 3 since he belonged to its magistracy . He was born ...
Pàgina xxi
... remarks concerning the poverty and barrenness of the country tended to produce those subsequent exertions which have done much to remedy the causes of reproach . The Scots were angry because Johnson was not enraptured with their scenery ...
... remarks concerning the poverty and barrenness of the country tended to produce those subsequent exertions which have done much to remedy the causes of reproach . The Scots were angry because Johnson was not enraptured with their scenery ...
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... remarks and memorials which I have been able to add to the narrative of Dr. Sprat ; who , writing when the feuds of civil war were yet recent , and the minds of either party were easily irritated , was obliged to pass over many ...
... remarks and memorials which I have been able to add to the narrative of Dr. Sprat ; who , writing when the feuds of civil war were yet recent , and the minds of either party were easily irritated , was obliged to pass over many ...
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... remarks on the actions of men , and the vicissitudes of life , without interest and without emotion . Their courtship was void of fondness , and their lamentation of sorrow . Their wish was only to say they hoped had been never said ...
... remarks on the actions of men , and the vicissitudes of life , without interest and without emotion . Their courtship was void of fondness , and their lamentation of sorrow . Their wish was only to say they hoped had been never said ...
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