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... language , by way of preparation for his Italian expedition . - We lay this night at Lough- borough . On Thursday , March 28 , we pursued our jour- ney . I mentioned that old Mr. Sheridan complained of the ingratitude of Mr. Wedderburne ...
... language , by way of preparation for his Italian expedition . - We lay this night at Lough- borough . On Thursday , March 28 , we pursued our jour- ney . I mentioned that old Mr. Sheridan complained of the ingratitude of Mr. Wedderburne ...
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... language of those countries to understand so much as they have related . Objects falling under the observation of the senses might be clearly known ; but every thing intellectual , every thing abstract politicks , morals , and religion ...
... language of those countries to understand so much as they have related . Objects falling under the observation of the senses might be clearly known ; but every thing intellectual , every thing abstract politicks , morals , and religion ...
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... language full of Scotticisms , Cibber , who was a clever , lively fellow , and then soliciting em- ployment among the booksellers , was engaged to correct the style and diction of the whole work , then intended to make only four volumes ...
... language full of Scotticisms , Cibber , who was a clever , lively fellow , and then soliciting em- ployment among the booksellers , was engaged to correct the style and diction of the whole work , then intended to make only four volumes ...
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... language is the paper on Novelty , yet we do not hear it talked of . " [ Johnson's opinions concerning the Monthly and Critical Reviews would not be accurate now [ 1803. ] BLAKEWAY . ] It was written by Grove , a dissenting teacher . 32 ...
... language is the paper on Novelty , yet we do not hear it talked of . " [ Johnson's opinions concerning the Monthly and Critical Reviews would not be accurate now [ 1803. ] BLAKEWAY . ] It was written by Grove , a dissenting teacher . 32 ...
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... language except that in which it was originally writ ten , we learn the language . " A gentleman maintained that the art of printing had hurt real learning , by disseminating idle writings . -JOHNSON . " Sir , if it had not been for the ...
... language except that in which it was originally writ ten , we learn the language . " A gentleman maintained that the art of printing had hurt real learning , by disseminating idle writings . -JOHNSON . " Sir , if it had not been for the ...
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Pàgina 220 - How is it that we hear the loudest yelps for liberty among the drivers of negroes T' and in his conversation with Mr.
Pàgina 196 - Why, Sir, you \ find no man, at all intellectual, who is willing to leave London. \ No, Sir, when a man is tired of London, he is tired of life ; for there is in London all that life can afford.
Pàgina 318 - ... to certainty, freedom ceases, because that cannot be certainly foreknown which is not certain at the time; but if it be certain at the time, it is a contradiction in terms to maintain that there can be afterwards any contingency dependent upon the exercise of will or any thing else." JOHNSON. " All theory is against the freedom of the will; all experience for it.
Pàgina 398 - ... perpetual jarring of those whom he charitably accommodated under his roof. He has sometimes suffered me to talk jocularly of his group of females, and call them his Seraglio. He thus mentions them, together with honest Levett, in one of his letters to Mrs. Thrale : " Williams hates every body ; Levett hates Desmoulins, and does not love Williams ; Desmoulins hates them both ; Poll loves none of them.
Pàgina 377 - He that is robb'd, not wanting what is stolen, Let him not know't, and he's not robb'd at all.
Pàgina 35 - A man who has not been in Italy is always conscious of an inferiority, from his not having seen what it is expected a man should see. The grand object of travelling is to see the shores of the Mediterranean.
Pàgina 67 - Provided, sir, I suppose, that the company which he is to have, is agreeable to you." JOHNSON. "What do you mean, sir? What do you take me for? Do you think I am so ignorant of the world as to imagine that I am to prescribe to a gentleman what company he is to have at his table?
Pàgina 66 - Notwithstanding the high veneration which I entertained for Dr. Johnson, I was sensible that he was sometimes a little actuated by the spirit of contradiction, and by means of that I hoped I should gain my point. I was persuaded that if I had come upon him with a direct proposal, "Sir, will you dine in company with Jack Wilkes?" he would have flown into a passion, and would probably have answered, "Dine with Jack Wilkes, Sir ! I'd as soon dine with Jack Ketch.
Pàgina 332 - I am a straggler. I may leave this town and go to Grand Cairo, without being missed here or observed there." EDWARDS. "Don't you eat supper, Sir?
Pàgina 32 - Reviewers (said he) are not Deists ; but they are Christians with as little Christianity as may be ; and are for pulling down all establishments. The Critical Reviewers are for supporting the constitution, both in church and state. The Critical Reviewers, I believe, often review without reading the books through ; but lay hold of a topick, and write chiefly from their own minds. The Monthly Reviewers are duller men, and are glad to read the books through.