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" In the romances formerly written, every transaction and sentiment was so remote from all that passes among men, that the reader was in very little danger of making any applications to himself; the virtues and crimes were equally beyond his sphere of activity;... "
Boswell's Life of Johnson: Life (v.l, 1709-1765; v.2 1765-1776; v.3, 1776 ... - Page 16
by James Boswell - 1887
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The Rambler. ...

Samuel Johnson - 1750 - 296 pages
...required to every thing which is laid before them, to fecure fecure them from unjuft prejudices, perverfe opinions, and incongruous combinations of images. In the romances formerly written, every tranfaction and fentiment was fo remote from all that paffes among men, that the reader was in very...
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The Rambler. ...

Samuel Johnson - 1752 - 326 pages
...IN the romances formerly written, every tranfacHon and fentiment was fo remote from all that pafles among men, that the reader was in very little danger of making any applications to himfelf ; the virtues and crimes were equally beyond his fphere of activity j and he amufed himfelf...
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The Rambler

Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 466 pages
...Jn the romances formerly written, every tranfaction and fentiment was ib remote from all that pafles among men, that the reader was in very little danger of making any applications to himfelf ; the virtues and crimes were equally beyond his fphere of activity ; and he amufed himfelf...
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The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: The Rambler

Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787
...required in every thing which is laid before them,1 to iecurc them f;om unjuft prejudices, perverfe opinions, and incongruous combinations of images. In the romances formerly written, every tranfaction and fentiment was fo remote from all that pafles among men, that the reader was in very...
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The Rambler

Samuel Johnson - 1792 - 582 pages
...romances formerly written, every tranfaction and fentiment was fo remote from all that pafTes ampn£ men, that the reader was in very little danger of making any applications to himfdt ; the virtues and crimes were equally beyond, his Iphere of activity ; and he amufed himfelf...
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The Works of Samuel Johnson.LL.D..: The rambler

Samuel Johnson - 1792 - 626 pages
...required in every thing which is laid before them, to fecure them from unjuft prejudices, perverfe opinions, and incongruous combinations of images. In the romances formerly written, every tranfaction and fentiment was fo remote from all that pafles among men, that the reader was in very...
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Rambler

Samuel Johnson - 1801 - 460 pages
...required in every thing which is laid before them, to fecure them from unjuft prejudices, perverfe opinions, and incongruous combinations of images. In the romances formerly written, every tranfaction and fentiment was fo remote from all that pafles among men, that the reader was in very...
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The Rambler [by S. Johnson and others]., Volume 1

1801 - 342 pages
...required in every thing which is laid before them, to fecure them from unjuft prejudices, per~ verfe opinions, and incongruous combinations of images. In the romances formerly written, every tranf— a£Hon and fentiment was fo remote from all that pafles among men, that the reader was in...
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Select British Classics, Volume 5

1803 - 322 pages
...kind, though not the same degree of caution, is required in every thing which is laid before them, to secure them from unjust prejudices, perverse opinions,...was in very little danger of making any applications td himself ; the virtues and crimes were equally beyond his sphere of activity ; and he amused himself...
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The Beauties of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Consisting of Maxims and Observations ...

Samuel Johnson - 1804 - 594 pages
...kind, though not the same degree of caution, is required in every thing which is laid before them, to secure them from unjust prejudices, perverse opinions, and incongruous combinations of images. Rambler, vol. i, p. 20. Youth is the lime of enterprise and hope : having yet no occasion for comparing...
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