The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: Including a Journal of His Tour to the Hebrides, Volume 3Claxton, Remsen, & Haffelfinger, 1878 |
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Pagina 11
... opinion of him . Speaking of him to me , he characterised him thus : " Lord Elibank has read a great deal . It is true , I can find in books all that he has read ; but he has a great deal of what is in books , proved by the test of real ...
... opinion of him . Speaking of him to me , he characterised him thus : " Lord Elibank has read a great deal . It is true , I can find in books all that he has read ; but he has a great deal of what is in books , proved by the test of real ...
Pagina 13
... opinion “ that Fingal was certainly genuine , for that he had heard a great part of it repeated in the original ... opinions of Dr. Johnson , which I relate without any remark . The many imitations , however , of Fingal , that have been ...
... opinion “ that Fingal was certainly genuine , for that he had heard a great part of it repeated in the original ... opinions of Dr. Johnson , which I relate without any remark . The many imitations , however , of Fingal , that have been ...
Pagina 14
... opinion upon this question , as to which I believe more than some , and less than others . The subject appears to have now become very uninteresting to the public . That Fingal is not from begin- ing to end a translation from the Gaelic ...
... opinion upon this question , as to which I believe more than some , and less than others . The subject appears to have now become very uninteresting to the public . That Fingal is not from begin- ing to end a translation from the Gaelic ...
Pagina 15
... opinion , they may easily refute the doctrine of their oppo- nents , who impute a belief in second - sight to superstition . To entertain a visionary notion that one sees a distant or future event may be called superstition ; but the ...
... opinion , they may easily refute the doctrine of their oppo- nents , who impute a belief in second - sight to superstition . To entertain a visionary notion that one sees a distant or future event may be called superstition ; but the ...
Pagina 17
... opinion of you was your saying in the Select Society , ' while parties ran high , soon after the year 1745 , that you did not think worse of a man's moral character for his having been in rebellion . This was It were to be wished that ...
... opinion of you was your saying in the Select Society , ' while parties ran high , soon after the year 1745 , that you did not think worse of a man's moral character for his having been in rebellion . This was It were to be wished that ...
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