The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: Comprehending an Account of His Studies and Numerous Works, in Chronological Order; a Series of His Epistolatory 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, Volume 2T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1807 |
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... Judge Hale was a great lawyer , and wrote upon law ; and yet he knew a great many other things , and has written upon other things . Selden too . " SIR A. " Very true , Sir ; and Lord Bacon . But was not Lord Coke a mere lawyer ...
... Judge Hale was a great lawyer , and wrote upon law ; and yet he knew a great many other things , and has written upon other things . Selden too . " SIR A. " Very true , Sir ; and Lord Bacon . But was not Lord Coke a mere lawyer ...
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... judge who has a good taste in style , and who has a bad . The two classes of persons whom you have mentioned , don't suffer as to good and bad . They both agree that Swift has a good neat style ; but one loves a neat style , another ...
... judge who has a good taste in style , and who has a bad . The two classes of persons whom you have mentioned , don't suffer as to good and bad . They both agree that Swift has a good neat style ; but one loves a neat style , another ...
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... Judge to return to the ancient law . It was my own sincere opinion , that they ought to ad- here to it ; but I had exhausted all my powers of reasoning in vain . Johnson thought as I did ; and in order to assist me in my application to ...
... Judge to return to the ancient law . It was my own sincere opinion , that they ought to ad- here to it ; but I had exhausted all my powers of reasoning in vain . Johnson thought as I did ; and in order to assist me in my application to ...
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... Judge . He that is thus governed , lives not by law , but by opinion : not by a certain rule to which he can apply his inten- tion before he acts , but by an uncertain and variable opinion , which he can never know but after he has ...
... Judge . He that is thus governed , lives not by law , but by opinion : not by a certain rule to which he can apply his inten- tion before he acts , but by an uncertain and variable opinion , which he can never know but after he has ...
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... long proposed . * " I communicated to Beattie what you said of his book in your last letter to me . He writes to me thus : You judge very rightly in supposing that 1772 5 208 THE LIFE OF 1772. am yet of opinion, that our cause was ...
... long proposed . * " I communicated to Beattie what you said of his book in your last letter to me . He writes to me thus : You judge very rightly in supposing that 1772 5 208 THE LIFE OF 1772. am yet of opinion, that our cause was ...
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The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Comprehending an Account of His ..., Volume 2 James Boswell,Samuel Johnson Visualização integral - 1791 |
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