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The Lady's Magazine, Or, Entertaining Companion for the Fair Sex ... - Page 353
1791
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The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Comprehending an Account of His ..., Volume 1

James Boswell - 1791 - 564 pages
...wanted, and the wafte of fo much time and labour of the teacher can never be repaid. Too much is expected from precocity, and too little performed. Mifs was...but in what did it terminate ? In marrying a little Prefbyterian parfon, who keeps an infant boarding-fchool, fo that all her employment now is, ' to fuckle...
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The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Comprehending an Account of His ..., Volume 1

James Boswell - 1791 - 554 pages
...never be repaid. Too much is expected from precocity, and too little performed. Mifs .<.,-i.»ftx, was an inftance of early cultivation, but in what did it terminate ? In marrying a little Prefbyterian parfon, who keeps an infant boarding-fchool, fo that all her employment now is, * to fuckle...
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The Attic Miscellany, Or, Characteristic Mirror of Men and Things

English poetry - 284 pages
...wanted, and the wafte of fo much time and labour of the teacher can never be repaid. Too much is expected from precocity, and too little performed. Mifs —...but in what did it terminate ? In marrying a little Prelbyterian parfon, whokeeps an infant boarding-fchool, fo that all her employment now is, • to...
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Dr. Johnson's Table Talk: Containing Aphorisms on Literature, Life ..., Volume 1

Samuel Johnson - Anecdotes - 1798 - 464 pages
...never be repaid. Too much is expected from precocity, and too little performed. Mils was an inflance of early cultivation ; but in what did it terminate ? In marrying a little Prefbyterian parfon, who keeps an infant boarding-fchool, fo that all her employment now is, « To...
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Dr. Johnson's table-talk: aphorisms [&c.] selected and arranged ..., Volume 1

Samuel Johnson - 1807 - 228 pages
...never be repaid. Too much is expected from precocity, and too little performed. Miss was an instance of early cultivation; but in what did it terminate? In marrying a little Presbyterian parson, who keeps an infant boarding-schoool, so that all her employment now is, ' To...
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The life of Samuel Johnson. [With] The principal corrections and ..., Volume 1

James Boswell - 1807 - 508 pages
...never be repaid. Too much is expected from precocity, and too little performed. Miss was an instance of early cultivation, but in what did it terminate ? In marrying a little Presbyterian parson, who keeps an infant boarding-school, so that all her employment now is, ' To suckle...
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The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: Comprehending an Account of ..., Volume 2

James Boswell - Authors, English - 1807 - 526 pages
...never be repaid. Too much is expected from precocity, and too little performed. Miss was an instance of early cultivation, but in what did it terminate? In marrying a little Presbyterian parson, who keeps an infant boarding-school, so that all her employment now is, ' To suckle...
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The life of Samuel Johnson, Volume 2

James Boswell - 1817 - 536 pages
...never be repaid. Too uiuch ы expected from precocity, and too little performed. Miss was an instance of early cultivation, but in what did it terminate ? In marrying a little Presbyterian parson, who keeps an infant boarding-school, to that alt her employment now is, ' Tu suckle...
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The Table Talk of John Selden

John Selden - Religion and state - 1818 - 678 pages
...never be repaid. Too much is expected from precocity, and too little performed. Miss was an instance of early cultivation ; but in what did it terminate? In marrying a little Presbyterian p'arson, who keeps an infant boarding-schoool, se that all her employment now is, •...
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Johnsoniana..

James Boswell - Authors, English - 1820 - 382 pages
...be repaid. Too much is expected from precocity, and too little performed. Miss * * * was an instance of early cultivation ; but in what did it terminate ? In marrying a little Presbyterian parson who keeps an infant boarding-school; so that all her employment now is ' To suckle...
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