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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... sure , is the main article in every trading nation , whereby- -Here the first paper was broke off . The second is as fol- lows : Question . Whether infinite power could make the world out of nothing ? The speakers to this question were ...
... sure , is the main article in every trading nation , whereby- -Here the first paper was broke off . The second is as fol- lows : Question . Whether infinite power could make the world out of nothing ? The speakers to this question were ...
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... sure intended for a much more noble and profitable purpose than this . Writers are not , I presume , to be considered as mere jack- puddings , whose business it is only to excite laugh- ter : this , indeed , may sometimes be intermixed ...
... sure intended for a much more noble and profitable purpose than this . Writers are not , I presume , to be considered as mere jack- puddings , whose business it is only to excite laugh- ter : this , indeed , may sometimes be intermixed ...
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... sure there is no profit in it . This Axylus himself will , I doubt not , be ready to confess . No man hath ever made or improved , though many have injured , and some have destroyed , their fortunes this way . In the last place , as to ...
... sure there is no profit in it . This Axylus himself will , I doubt not , be ready to confess . No man hath ever made or improved , though many have injured , and some have destroyed , their fortunes this way . In the last place , as to ...
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... who sent him the trial of Miss Blandy to vex him , and Į hope you will print this letter , that he may have the plague of guessing at me , for I am sure he will guess wrong ; and , perhaps , may fix on THE COVENT - GARDEN JOURNAĘ .. 39.
... who sent him the trial of Miss Blandy to vex him , and Į hope you will print this letter , that he may have the plague of guessing at me , for I am sure he will guess wrong ; and , perhaps , may fix on THE COVENT - GARDEN JOURNAĘ .. 39.
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... sure you would not burn such books 6 as those . ' " No ! ' cries the spark , where was you born ? go into a shop of London , and buy ' some butter , or a quartern of tea , and then you'll 6 see what use is made of these books . ' " Ay ...
... sure you would not burn such books 6 as those . ' " No ! ' cries the spark , where was you born ? go into a shop of London , and buy ' some butter , or a quartern of tea , and then you'll 6 see what use is made of these books . ' " Ay ...
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