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... asked by an authour , what he thinks of his work , is put to the torture , and is not obliged to speak the truth ; so that what he says is not considered as his opinion ; yet he has said it , and cannot retract it ; and this authour ...
... asked by an authour , what he thinks of his work , is put to the torture , and is not obliged to speak the truth ; so that what he says is not considered as his opinion ; yet he has said it , and cannot retract it ; and this authour ...
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... in a maid of honour in France , who being asked by the Queen what o'clock it was , answered , " What your Majesty pleases . " He admitted that Mr. Mr. Burke's classical pun upon Mr. Wilkes's being Burke's 1778. ÆTAT . 69 7.
... in a maid of honour in France , who being asked by the Queen what o'clock it was , answered , " What your Majesty pleases . " He admitted that Mr. Mr. Burke's classical pun upon Mr. Wilkes's being Burke's 1778. ÆTAT . 69 7.
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... asked , " Will he write the Lives of the Poets impartially ? He was the first that brought Whig and Tory into a Dictionary . And what do you think of his defini- tion of Excise ? Do you know the history of his aversion to the word ...
... asked , " Will he write the Lives of the Poets impartially ? He was the first that brought Whig and Tory into a Dictionary . And what do you think of his defini- tion of Excise ? Do you know the history of his aversion to the word ...
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... asked a question ; and if he has any candour , he will not be surprised at the answers which Johnson sometimes gave in moments of irritation , which , let me assure them , is exquisitely painful . must not be erroneously supposed that ...
... asked a question ; and if he has any candour , he will not be surprised at the answers which Johnson sometimes gave in moments of irritation , which , let me assure them , is exquisitely painful . must not be erroneously supposed that ...
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... asked if Othello's doc- trine was not plausible : 66 " He that is robb'd , not wanting what is stolen , Let him not know't , and he's not robb'd at all . " " " Dr. Johnson and Mrs. Thrale joined against this . JOHNSON . " Ask any man if ...
... asked if Othello's doc- trine was not plausible : 66 " He that is robb'd , not wanting what is stolen , Let him not know't , and he's not robb'd at all . " " " Dr. Johnson and Mrs. Thrale joined against this . JOHNSON . " Ask any man if ...
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