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... ; " the minute selection of cha- racteristic circumstances " was neither the style of Johnson , nor the fashion of his day . — CROKER . - antechamber , for which the reason assigned was , that 2 1754 . LIFE OF JOHNSON .
... ; " the minute selection of cha- racteristic circumstances " was neither the style of Johnson , nor the fashion of his day . — CROKER . - antechamber , for which the reason assigned was , that 2 1754 . LIFE OF JOHNSON .
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... reason assigned was , that he had company with him ; and that at last , when the door opened , out walked Colley Cibber ; and that Johnson was so violently provoked when he found for whom he had been so long excluded , that he went away ...
... reason assigned was , that he had company with him ; and that at last , when the door opened , out walked Colley Cibber ; and that Johnson was so violently provoked when he found for whom he had been so long excluded , that he went away ...
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... reason to be- lieve , that he will bring this as near to perfection as any man could do . The Plan of it , which he published some years ago , seems to me to be a proof of it . No- thing can be more rationally imagined , or more accu ...
... reason to be- lieve , that he will bring this as near to perfection as any man could do . The Plan of it , which he published some years ago , seems to me to be a proof of it . No- thing can be more rationally imagined , or more accu ...
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... reason why the au- thors , which are yet read , of the sixteenth century , are so little understood , is , that they are read alone ; and no help is borrowed from those who lived with them , or before them . Some part of this ignorance ...
... reason why the au- thors , which are yet read , of the sixteenth century , are so little understood , is , that they are read alone ; and no help is borrowed from those who lived with them , or before them . Some part of this ignorance ...
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... reason , which I know you will approve : I have a mother more than eighty years old , who has counted the days to the publication of my book , in hopes of seeing me ; and to her , if I can disengage myself here , I re- solve to go ...
... reason , which I know you will approve : I have a mother more than eighty years old , who has counted the days to the publication of my book , in hopes of seeing me ; and to her , if I can disengage myself here , I re- solve to go ...
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