Miscellaneous: Covent-Garden journal. Essay on nothing. Charge delivered to the Grand jury, 29th June, 1749. Journal of a voyage to Lisbon. Fragment of a comment on Lord Bolingbroke's Essays. An enquiry into the causes of the late increase of robbersJ. Johnson, 1806 |
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... character of a buffoon ; and his admirers , if an old Latin proverb be true , deserve no great compliments to be paid to their wisdom . After what I have here advanced I cannot fairly , I think , be represented as an enemy to laughter ...
... character of a buffoon ; and his admirers , if an old Latin proverb be true , deserve no great compliments to be paid to their wisdom . After what I have here advanced I cannot fairly , I think , be represented as an enemy to laughter ...
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... character with what we find in the writings of Sir Alexan- der Drawcansir , the only annalist of whose works any part hath descended to us , who , in one of his annals or journals , acquaints us , that there was not a single lady in his ...
... character with what we find in the writings of Sir Alexan- der Drawcansir , the only annalist of whose works any part hath descended to us , who , in one of his annals or journals , acquaints us , that there was not a single lady in his ...
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... character I shall here lay open . I well know that I pass upon you both , and a thousand other such wise people , for one of the best and worthiest men alive for , as a late orator at the Robinhood said , he had the honour to be an ...
... character I shall here lay open . I well know that I pass upon you both , and a thousand other such wise people , for one of the best and worthiest men alive for , as a late orator at the Robinhood said , he had the honour to be an ...
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... character , which I would endeavour to persuade you I despise ; but , before I finish this letter , I flatter myself I shall place this fellow in so contemptible a light , that I shall have no reason to apprehend your drawing any such ...
... character , which I would endeavour to persuade you I despise ; but , before I finish this letter , I flatter myself I shall place this fellow in so contemptible a light , that I shall have no reason to apprehend your drawing any such ...
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... character , which some have affected . But , surely , it becomes a man to purchase every thing as cheap as he can ; now , why should he be at the pains and expence of being good in reality , when he may so certainly obtain all the ...
... character , which some have affected . But , surely , it becomes a man to purchase every thing as cheap as he can ; now , why should he be at the pains and expence of being good in reality , when he may so certainly obtain all the ...
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