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Pagina 69
... lived five years ; in which time he is said to have read all the Greek and Latin writers . With what limitations this universality is to be under- stood , who shall inform us ? It might be supposed that he who read so much should have ...
... lived five years ; in which time he is said to have read all the Greek and Latin writers . With what limitations this universality is to be under- stood , who shall inform us ? It might be supposed that he who read so much should have ...
Pagina 111
... lived in a confirmed belief of the immediate and occasional agency of Providence , yet grew old without any visible worship . In the distribution of his hours , there was no hour of prayer , either solitary , or with his household ...
... lived in a confirmed belief of the immediate and occasional agency of Providence , yet grew old without any visible worship . In the distribution of his hours , there was no hour of prayer , either solitary , or with his household ...
Pagina 192
... lived with great splendour and hospitality ; and from time to time amused himself with poetry , in which he sometimes speaks of the rebels , and their usurpation , in the natural language of an honest man . At last it became necessary ...
... lived with great splendour and hospitality ; and from time to time amused himself with poetry , in which he sometimes speaks of the rebels , and their usurpation , in the natural language of an honest man . At last it became necessary ...
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Lives of the English Poets, Volume 1 Samuel Johnson,George Birkbeck Norman Hill Fragmentweergave - 1968 |
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