The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 5Nichols, 1816 |
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... things of higher kind , Yet to the present held an equal mind . SIR , To the RAMBLER . HOR . FRANCIS . THOSE who exalt themselves into the chair of instruction , without enquiring whether any will submit to their authority , have not ...
... things of higher kind , Yet to the present held an equal mind . SIR , To the RAMBLER . HOR . FRANCIS . THOSE who exalt themselves into the chair of instruction , without enquiring whether any will submit to their authority , have not ...
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... thing was disappointment and discontent . I was in danger of losing irrepa- rably one third of my hopes , and was condemned still to wait for the rest . Of part of my terror I was soon eased ; for the youth whom his relations would have ...
... thing was disappointment and discontent . I was in danger of losing irrepa- rably one third of my hopes , and was condemned still to wait for the rest . Of part of my terror I was soon eased ; for the youth whom his relations would have ...
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... , I deliver up myself to the tyranny of every desire which fancy suggests , and long for a thousand things which I am unable to procure . VOL , V. C Money has much less power than is ascribed to it No 73 . 17 THE RAMBLER .
... , I deliver up myself to the tyranny of every desire which fancy suggests , and long for a thousand things which I am unable to procure . VOL , V. C Money has much less power than is ascribed to it No 73 . 17 THE RAMBLER .
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... thing but wants , which reason tells me will never be supplied . I am , & c . CUPIDUS . NUMB . 74. SATURDAY , December 1 , 1750 . Rixatur de land sæpe caprina . For nought tormented , she for nought torments . ΜΕΝ HOR . ELPHINSTON , MEN ...
... thing but wants , which reason tells me will never be supplied . I am , & c . CUPIDUS . NUMB . 74. SATURDAY , December 1 , 1750 . Rixatur de land sæpe caprina . For nought tormented , she for nought torments . ΜΕΝ HOR . ELPHINSTON , MEN ...
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... thing more than the symptom of some deeper ma- lady . He that is angry without daring to confess his resentment , or sorrowful without the liberty of telling his grief , is too frequently inclined to give C 2 No 74 . 19 THE RAMBLER .
... thing more than the symptom of some deeper ma- lady . He that is angry without daring to confess his resentment , or sorrowful without the liberty of telling his grief , is too frequently inclined to give C 2 No 74 . 19 THE RAMBLER .
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