The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Comprehending an Account of His Studies and Numerous Works, in Chronological Order; a Series of His Epistolary Correspondence and Conversations with Many Eminent Persons; and Various Original Pieces of His Composition, Never Before Published: the Whole Exhibiting a View of Literature and Literary Men in Great-Britain, for Near Half a Century, During which He Flourished. In Three VolumesHenry Baldwin, 1793 |
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... question . " JOHNSON . " No , Sir , it does not folve the question . It does not follow that what a man would do is therefore right . " I faid , I wished to have it fettled , whether duelling was contrary to the laws of Christianity ...
... question . " JOHNSON . " No , Sir , it does not folve the question . It does not follow that what a man would do is therefore right . " I faid , I wished to have it fettled , whether duelling was contrary to the laws of Christianity ...
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... question was started , how far people who dif- agree in a capital point can live in friendship to- gether . Johnson faid they might . Goldsmith faid they could not , as they had not the idem velle atque idem nolle - the fame likings and ...
... question was started , how far people who dif- agree in a capital point can live in friendship to- gether . Johnson faid they might . Goldsmith faid they could not , as they had not the idem velle atque idem nolle - the fame likings and ...
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... question is not what is now convenient , but what is generally right . If the people of Camp- belltown be distreffed by the restoration of the re- fpondent , they are diftreffed only by their own . fault ; by turbulent paffions and ...
... question is not what is now convenient , but what is generally right . If the people of Camp- belltown be distreffed by the restoration of the re- fpondent , they are diftreffed only by their own . fault ; by turbulent paffions and ...
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... question purely of Scotch law . It was held of old , and continued for a long period , to be an established principle in that law , that whoever intermeddled with the effects of a perfon deceased , without the interpofition of legal ...
... question purely of Scotch law . It was held of old , and continued for a long period , to be an established principle in that law , that whoever intermeddled with the effects of a perfon deceased , without the interpofition of legal ...
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... question whether one man is leffened by another's acquiring an equal degree of knowledge with him . Johnfon afferted the affirm- ative . I maintained that the pofition might be true in those kinds of knowledge which produce wisdom ...
... question whether one man is leffened by another's acquiring an equal degree of knowledge with him . Johnfon afferted the affirm- ative . I maintained that the pofition might be true in those kinds of knowledge which produce wisdom ...
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Ætat againſt anſwer aſked Atat authour becauſe BENNET LANGTON beſt cafe cauſe confequence confider confiderable converfation DEAR SIR defire dined Engliſh eſtabliſhed Etat expreffed faid fame feemed feen fend fent fhall fhewed fhould firft firſt fome fomething fometimes foon ftate ftill fubject fuch fuppofe fure Garrick gentleman GOLDSMITH happineſs Hebrides himſelf hiſtory honour houfe houſe humble fervant inftance JAMES BOSWELL JOHNSON juſt lady laft Langton laſt leaſt lefs letter Lichfield London Lord Hailes Lord Monboddo mentioned mind moft moſt muft muſt myſelf neceffary never obferved occafion paffage paffed perfon pleafing pleaſed pleaſure prefent preferved publick publiſhed puniſhment queſtion reaſon refpect ſaid SAMUEL JOHNSON ſay Scotland ſee ſeems ſeen ſeveral ſhall ſhe ſmall ſome ſpeak ſtate talked tell themſelves theſe thing thofe thoſe thought Thrale tion told univerfally uſed vifit whofe wiſh write yourſelf