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... authours , is the least pleasing or valuable part of their writings . " " Mattaire's account of the Stephani is a heavy book . He seems to have been a puzzle - headed man , with a large share of scholarship , but with little geometry or ...
... authours , is the least pleasing or valuable part of their writings . " " Mattaire's account of the Stephani is a heavy book . He seems to have been a puzzle - headed man , with a large share of scholarship , but with little geometry or ...
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... authour of a treatise on Agriculture ; and said of him , Sir , of the objects which the Society of Arts have chiefly in view , the chymical effects of bodies operating upon other bodies , he knows more than almost any man . ' Johnson ...
... authour of a treatise on Agriculture ; and said of him , Sir , of the objects which the Society of Arts have chiefly in view , the chymical effects of bodies operating upon other bodies , he knows more than almost any man . ' Johnson ...
Pagina 12
... authour in a publick room , at the rate of five shillings each for admission . One of the com- pany having read it aloud , Dr. Johnson said , Bolder words and more timorous meaning , I think , never were brought together . " " Talking ...
... authour in a publick room , at the rate of five shillings each for admission . One of the com- pany having read it aloud , Dr. Johnson said , Bolder words and more timorous meaning , I think , never were brought together . " " Talking ...
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... authour of NOUVEAU DICTIONNAIRE HISTORIQUE , 1789 , ) would have been more pure , if he had not known so many lan- guages . MALONE . ] Etat . 71 . ، 1780. more blood than brains € 2 DR . JOHNSON . 19 the Classicks than Johnson expected ...
... authour of NOUVEAU DICTIONNAIRE HISTORIQUE , 1789 , ) would have been more pure , if he had not known so many lan- guages . MALONE . ] Etat . 71 . ، 1780. more blood than brains € 2 DR . JOHNSON . 19 the Classicks than Johnson expected ...
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... authours , their productions on more weighty occasions must be wonderful in- deed ! 5 " He observed once , at Sir Joshua Reynolds's , that a beggar in the street will more readily ask alms from a man , though there should be no marks of ...
... authours , their productions on more weighty occasions must be wonderful in- deed ! 5 " He observed once , at Sir Joshua Reynolds's , that a beggar in the street will more readily ask alms from a man , though there should be no marks of ...
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The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Including a Journal of His Tour ..., Volume 4 James Boswell Volledige weergave - 1839 |
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