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Pagina vii
... hope , to be instrumental in opening and familiar- ising to the greatly expanded , and hourly expanding circle of intelligent readers in the less affluent classes of the community , a mine of information and amusement , which may be ...
... hope , to be instrumental in opening and familiar- ising to the greatly expanded , and hourly expanding circle of intelligent readers in the less affluent classes of the community , a mine of information and amusement , which may be ...
Pagina xix
... hope to receive a similar gift ; for it is scarcely more practicable to find another Bos- well than another Johnson . " No. xlvi . 1820 . - - " Boswell's Life of Johnson is , we suspect , the richest dic- tionary of wit and wisdom any ...
... hope to receive a similar gift ; for it is scarcely more practicable to find another Bos- well than another Johnson . " No. xlvi . 1820 . - - " Boswell's Life of Johnson is , we suspect , the richest dic- tionary of wit and wisdom any ...
Pagina 11
... hope for the countenance of that venerable gentleman to this Work , will appear from what he wrote to me upon a former occasion from Oxford , No- vember 17. 1785 : " Dear Sir , I hazard this letter , not knowing where it will find you ...
... hope for the countenance of that venerable gentleman to this Work , will appear from what he wrote to me upon a former occasion from Oxford , No- vember 17. 1785 : " Dear Sir , I hazard this letter , not knowing where it will find you ...
Pagina 26
... hope for impartiality , but must expect little intelligence ; for the incidents which give excellence to biography are of a volatile and evanescent kind , such as soon escape the memory , and are rarely transmitted by tradition . We ...
... hope for impartiality , but must expect little intelligence ; for the incidents which give excellence to biography are of a volatile and evanescent kind , such as soon escape the memory , and are rarely transmitted by tradition . We ...
Pagina 36
... hope . " This is so beautifully imag ined , that I would not suppress it . But , like many other theories , it is deduced from a supposed fact , which is , indeed , a fiction . ( 2 ) Prayers and Meditations , p . 27 . that many of his ...
... hope . " This is so beautifully imag ined , that I would not suppress it . But , like many other theories , it is deduced from a supposed fact , which is , indeed , a fiction . ( 2 ) Prayers and Meditations , p . 27 . that many of his ...
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