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The New [afterw.] Owen's weekly chronicle; or Universal journal - Page 130
1759
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The Prince of Abissinia: A Tale : in Two Volumes

Samuel Johnson - 1759 - 176 pages
...is beautiful, and whatever is dreadful, muft be familiar to his imagination : he muft be converfant with all that is awfully vaft or elegantly little....the garden, the animals of the wood, the minerals of the earth, and meteors of the fky, muft all concur to ftore his mind with inexhauftible variety...
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An Introduction to the Most Useful European Languages ...: Select Passages ...

Giuseppe Baretti - 1772 - 490 pages
...is beautiful and whatever is dreadful, mutt be familiar to his imagination : he muft be converfant with all that is awfully vaft, or elegantly little....the garden, the animals of the wood, the minerals of the earth, the meteors of the fty, muft all concur to ftore bis mind with inexhauftible variety;...
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The history of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia. The vision of Theodore. The ...

Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 560 pages
...is beautiful, and whatever is dreadful, muft be familiar to his imagination : he muft be converfant with all that is awfully vaft or elegantly little....the garden, the animals of the wood, the minerals of the earth, and meteors of the fky, muft all concur to ftore his mind with inexhauftible variety...
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The history of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia. The vision of Theodore. The ...

Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 534 pages
...is beautiful, and whatever is dreadful, muft be familiar yo his imagination : he muft be converfant with all that is awfully vaft or elegantly little....the garden, the animals of the wood, the minerals of the earth, and meteors of the fky, muft all concur to ftore his mind with inexhauftible variety...
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The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: Tales and visions: The history of ...

Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 546 pages
...is beautiful, and whatever is dreadful, muft be familiar to his imagination : he muft be converfant with all that is awfully vaft or elegantly little....the garden, the animals of the wood, the minerals of the earth, and meteors of the fky, muft all concur to (lore his mind with inexhauftible variety:...
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The Prince of Abissinia: A Tale

Samuel Johnson - 1790 - 318 pages
...is beautiful, and whatever is dreadful, muft be familiar to his imagination : he muft be converfant with all that is awfully vaft or elegantly little....the garden, the animals of the wood, the minerals of the earth, and meteors of the fk$ muft all concur to ftore his mind with inexhauftible variety :...
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The Works of Samuel Johnson.LL.D..: A dissertation upon the Greek comedy ...

Samuel Johnson - 1792 - 586 pages
...is beautiful, and whatever is dreadful, muft be familiar to his imagination : he muft be converfant with all that is awfully vaft or elegantly little,...the garden, the animals of the wood, the minerals of the earth, and meteors of the fky, muft al\ eoncur to ftore his mind with inexhauftible variety...
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Lectures on Natural and Experimental Philosophy: Considered in It ..., Volume 2

George Adams - 1794 - 604 pages
...Whatever is beautiful, and whatever is dreadful, mould be familiar to his mind ; he mould be converfant with all that is awfully vaft, or elegantly little....the garden, the animals of the wood, the minerals of the earth, and the meteors of the flcy, fhouid all concur to enrich his mind. By him no kind of...
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Elegant Extracts: Or, Useful and Entertaining Passages in Prose, Selected ...

Vicesimus Knox - 1797 - 516 pages
...is beautiful, and whatever is dreadful, muft be familiar to his imagination : he muft be convenant with all that is awfully vaft or elegantly little....the garden, the animals of the wood, the minerals of the earth, and meteprs of the iky, muft all concur to ftore his mind with inexhauftible variety:...
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Elegant Extracts: Or, Useful and Entertaining Passages in Prose ..., Volume 2

1797 - 522 pages
...Whatever is beautiful, and whatever is dreadful, muil be familiar to hu imagination: he mud be ccmverfam with all that is awfully vaft or elegantly little. The plants of the garden, the ani. mals of the wood , the minerals of the earth, and meteors of the Iky, mud all concur to (lore...
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