Critical & Historical Essays, Volume 2J.M. Dent & Company, 1900 - 330 pages |
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... remonstrances of his tutor . Soon after this , the young man fell in with Bossuet's controversial writings , and was speedily converted by them to the Roman Catholic faith . THE VICAR OF WAKEFIELD II It was in the year IO SAMUEL JOHNSON.
... remonstrances of his tutor . Soon after this , the young man fell in with Bossuet's controversial writings , and was speedily converted by them to the Roman Catholic faith . THE VICAR OF WAKEFIELD II It was in the year IO SAMUEL JOHNSON.
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... soon after the accession of the house of Hanover a change took place . The supreme power passed to a man who cared little for poetry or eloquence . The importance of the House of Commons was constantly on the increase . The government ...
... soon after the accession of the house of Hanover a change took place . The supreme power passed to a man who cared little for poetry or eloquence . The importance of the House of Commons was constantly on the increase . The government ...
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... soon qualified him for another year of night - cellars . Such was the life of Savage , of Boyse , and of a crowd of others . Some- times blazing in gold - laced hats and waistcoats ; sometimes lying in bed because their coats had gone ...
... soon qualified him for another year of night - cellars . Such was the life of Savage , of Boyse , and of a crowd of others . Some- times blazing in gold - laced hats and waistcoats ; sometimes lying in bed because their coats had gone ...
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... soon as it had been received . If a sum was bestowed on the wretched adventurer , such as , properly husbanded , might have supplied him for six months , it was instantly spent in strange freaks of sensuality , and , before forty ...
... soon as it had been received . If a sum was bestowed on the wretched adventurer , such as , properly husbanded , might have supplied him for six months , it was instantly spent in strange freaks of sensuality , and , before forty ...
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... soon passed away . It is remarkable that to the last he entertained a fixed contempt for all those modes of life and those studies which tend to emancipate the mind from the prejudices of a particular age or a particular nation . Of ...
... soon passed away . It is remarkable that to the last he entertained a fixed contempt for all those modes of life and those studies which tend to emancipate the mind from the prejudices of a particular age or a particular nation . Of ...
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