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... and therefore as the work from which the following Remarks are extracted may fall into the hands of very few of the numerous readers of Dr. Johnfon's Prefaces , we hope the public will approve ! of our republishing thefe strictures ...
... and therefore as the work from which the following Remarks are extracted may fall into the hands of very few of the numerous readers of Dr. Johnfon's Prefaces , we hope the public will approve ! of our republishing thefe strictures ...
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But it was not for the reputation of Dr. Johnson's politics that Milton should be abused for his principles of Liberty by a less eminent hand than his own . The minute fnarlers , or fpumofe declamers against the sentiments and diction ...
But it was not for the reputation of Dr. Johnson's politics that Milton should be abused for his principles of Liberty by a less eminent hand than his own . The minute fnarlers , or fpumofe declamers against the sentiments and diction ...
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... that Lauder's ftrictures in the Gentleman's Magazine had fwelled into the fize of a pamphlet of 160 pages , it was ushered into public by a preface , and finished by a postscript , from the illuftrious hand of Dr. Samuel Johnson .
... that Lauder's ftrictures in the Gentleman's Magazine had fwelled into the fize of a pamphlet of 160 pages , it was ushered into public by a preface , and finished by a postscript , from the illuftrious hand of Dr. Samuel Johnson .
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There is at least a HIGH DEGREE OF PREPOLLENT PROBABILITY , that the Letter in that Magazine for the month of Auguft , page 363 , 364 , figned WILLIAM LAUDER , came from the amicable hand of Mr. Samuel Johnson .
There is at least a HIGH DEGREE OF PREPOLLENT PROBABILITY , that the Letter in that Magazine for the month of Auguft , page 363 , 364 , figned WILLIAM LAUDER , came from the amicable hand of Mr. Samuel Johnson .
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On the other hand , few men are fo totally abandoned and depraved as to have no remnants of grace and goodnefs , no intervals of fobriety , no touches of regret for departed innocence , no sense of those generous paffions which animate ...
On the other hand , few men are fo totally abandoned and depraved as to have no remnants of grace and goodnefs , no intervals of fobriety , no touches of regret for departed innocence , no sense of those generous paffions which animate ...
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| Title | Remarks on Johnson's Life of Milton. To which are Added, Milton's Tractate of Education and Areopagitica Issue 56 of British culture series, Group IV Eighteenth century collections online |
| Author | Francis Blackburne |
| Publisher | Verlag nicht ermittelbar, 1780 |
| Original from | Oxford University |
| Digitized | 19 Jun 2008 |
| Length | 381 pages |
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