THE WORKS OF SAMUEL JOHNSON, LL.D.1823 |
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... method , I may be advertised of its defects or superfluities . Such informations I may justly hope , from the emulation with which those , who desire the praise of elegance or discern- ment , must contend in the promotion of a design ...
... method , I may be advertised of its defects or superfluities . Such informations I may justly hope , from the emulation with which those , who desire the praise of elegance or discern- ment , must contend in the promotion of a design ...
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... method every word will have its history , and the reader will be informed of the gradual changes of the language , and have before his eyes the rise of some words , and the fall of others . But observations so minute and accurate are to ...
... method every word will have its history , and the reader will be informed of the gradual changes of the language , and have before his eyes the rise of some words , and the fall of others . But observations so minute and accurate are to ...
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... method , establishing to myself , in the progress of the work , such rules as ex- perience and analogy suggested to me ; experience , which practice and observation were continually in- creasing ; and analogy , which , though in some ...
... method , establishing to myself , in the progress of the work , such rules as ex- perience and analogy suggested to me ; experience , which practice and observation were continually in- creasing ; and analogy , which , though in some ...
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... method , establishing to myself , in the progress of the work , such rules as ex- perience and analogy suggested to me ; experience , which practice and observation were continually in- creasing ; and analogy , which , though in some ...
... method , establishing to myself , in the progress of the work , such rules as ex- perience and analogy suggested to me ; experience , which practice and observation were continually in- creasing ; and analogy , which , though in some ...
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... method formerly practised of destroying the sight of captives or compe- titors , by holding a burning bason before the eye , which dried up its humidity . ( 2 ) As Macbeth expected to see a train of kings , and was only enquiring from ...
... method formerly practised of destroying the sight of captives or compe- titors , by holding a burning bason before the eye , which dried up its humidity . ( 2 ) As Macbeth expected to see a train of kings , and was only enquiring from ...
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