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A Critical Enquiry Into the Moral Writings of Dr. Samuel Johnson: In which ... - Page 87
by William Mudford - 1802 - 144 pages
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The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia: A Tale

Samuel Johnson - 1824 - 64 pages
...happiness and misery of every condition; observe the power of all the passions In all their combinations, and trace the changes of the human mind as they are...the sprightliness of infancy to the despondence of decripitude. He must divest himself of the .prejudice of his age or country; he. must consider right...
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Examples of English Prose: From the Reign of Elizabeth to the Present Time ...

George Walker - 1825 - 668 pages
...happiness and misery of every condition ; observe the power of all the passions in all their combinations, and trace the changes of the human mind as they are...and wrong in their abstracted and invariable state ; he must disregard present laws and opinions, and rise to general and transcendental truths, which...
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The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 1

Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 514 pages
...happiness and misery of every condition ; observe the power of all the passions in all their combinations, and trace the changes of the human mind, as they are...and wrong in their abstracted and invariable state ; he must disregard present laws and opinions, and rise to general and transcendental truths, which...
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The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: With Murphy's Essay, Volume 6

Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 728 pages
...happiness and misery of every condition ; observe the power of all the passions in all their combinations, and trace the changes of the human mind as they are...and wrong in their abstracted and invariable state ; he must disregard present laws and opinions, and rise to general and transcendental truths, which...
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The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Essay on the life and genius of Dr ...

Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 504 pages
...happiness and misery of every condition ; observe the power of all the passions in all their combinations, and trace the changes of the human mind, as they are...must consider right and wrong in their abstracted tuid invariable state; he must disregard present laws and opinions, and rise to general and transcendental...
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The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.

Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 750 pages
...happiness and misery of every condition ; observe the power of all the passions in all their combinations ; and trace the changes of the human mind, as they are...He must divest himself of the prejudices of his age and country ; he muet coneider right and wrong in their abstracted and invariable state ; he must disregard...
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The Literary magnet of the belles lettres, science, and the fine ..., Volume 3

Tobias Merton (pseud) - 1825 - 380 pages
...and misery of every condition — observe the power of all the passions, in all their combinations, and trace the changes of the human mind, as they are...infancy, to the despondence of decrepitude. He must write as the interpreter of nature, and the legislator of mankind; and consider himself as presiding...
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Rasselas: A Tale

Samuel Johnson - 1827 - 160 pages
...the passions in all their combinations and trace the changes of the human mind as thev are n'odined by various institutions and accidental influences...the sprightliness of infancy to the despondence of decripitude He must divest himself of the prejudices of his age or countrv • he must consider right...
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A Theoretical and Practical Grammar of the French Tongue: In which the ...

Jean-Pons-Victor Lecoutz de Levizac - 1828 - 466 pages
...condition ; observe the power of all the passions, in all their combinations, and trace the changes 39 of the human mind, as they are modified by various...despondence of decrepitude. He must divest himself 40 ef the prejudices of his age or country ; he must consider right and wrong 41 in their abstracted...
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The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia: A Tale

Samuel Johnson - 1829 - 142 pages
...happiness and misery of every condition ; observe the power of all the passions in all their combinations, and trace the changes of the human mind as they are...and wrong in their abstracted and invariable state; he must disregard present laws and opinions, and rise to general and transcendental truths, which will...
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