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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... tion , yet , sir , these walls , these stones , these boards , these very bracks , withute ears , withute a tongue , would tacitly express their endeegnation . Sir , it is a queestion , that whoever hath rede history , or deeved at all ...
... tion , yet , sir , these walls , these stones , these boards , these very bracks , withute ears , withute a tongue , would tacitly express their endeegnation . Sir , it is a queestion , that whoever hath rede history , or deeved at all ...
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... tion of learning , which first began in the thirty- sixth century ; some few monuments of antiquity have however triumphed over the rage of barbarism , which may serve us to confute the horrid forgeries of that legendary Geoffry Bechard ...
... tion of learning , which first began in the thirty- sixth century ; some few monuments of antiquity have however triumphed over the rage of barbarism , which may serve us to confute the horrid forgeries of that legendary Geoffry Bechard ...
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... tion out of it , by tormenting the man I hate . I accordingly communicated the secret to Axylus , and gave him almost demonstration of the truth of what I told him . He answered with a smile , he hoped I was mistaken ; but if not , he ...
... tion out of it , by tormenting the man I hate . I accordingly communicated the secret to Axylus , and gave him almost demonstration of the truth of what I told him . He answered with a smile , he hoped I was mistaken ; but if not , he ...
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... tion with which he hath consulted a looking - glass ; and many a fox - hunter might , to his great honour , have pursued the enemies of his country with less labour and with less danger than he hath encoun- tered in the pursuit of foxes ...
... tion with which he hath consulted a looking - glass ; and many a fox - hunter might , to his great honour , have pursued the enemies of his country with less labour and with less danger than he hath encoun- tered in the pursuit of foxes ...
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... ; otherwise it may possibly sink only to a name . For though I admit it possible , that bare ámbi- tion may incite some persons to attempt employ- ments for which they are utterly unfit , yet the THE COVENT GARDEN JOURNAL . 63.
... ; otherwise it may possibly sink only to a name . For though I admit it possible , that bare ámbi- tion may incite some persons to attempt employ- ments for which they are utterly unfit , yet the THE COVENT GARDEN JOURNAL . 63.
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