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The life of Samuel Johnson. Copious notes by Malone - Page 226
by James Boswell - 1821
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The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Comprehending an Account of His ..., Volume 2

James Boswell - 1791 - 608 pages
...eftablifhments. The Critical Reviewers are for fupporting the conftitution, both in church and ftate. The Critical Reviewers, I believe, often review without...of Lord Lyttelton's extreme anxiety as an authour; obferving,. that " he was thirty years in preparing his Hiftory, and that he employed a man to point...
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Dr. Johnson's Table Talk: Containing Aphorisms on Literature, Life ..., Volume 1

Samuel Johnson - 1798 - 464 pages
...eftablifhments. The Critical Reviewers are for fupporting the conftitution both in Chureh and State. The Critical Reviewers, I believe, often review without...duller men, and are glad to read the books through." Sir Jomua Reynolds faid, that he wondered to find fo much good writing employed in them, when the authors...
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Dr. Johnson's table-talk: aphorisms [&c.] selected and arranged ..., Volume 2

Samuel Johnson - 1807 - 238 pages
...establishments. The Critical Reviewers are for supporting the constitution both in Church and State. The Critical Reviewers, I believe, often review without...duller men, and are glad to read the books through." ,Sir Joshua Reynolds said, that he wondered to find so much good writing employed in them, when the...
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The life of Samuel Johnson, Volume 2

James Boswell - 1817 - 536 pages
...Critical Revirwers are lor supporting the constitution both in Church and state. The Critical Reviewers, 1 believe, often review without reading the books through ; but lay hold of a topic, and write chieHy from their own minds. The Monthly Reviewers are duller men, and are glad to...
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The Table Talk of John Selden

John Selden - 1818 - 678 pages
...Critical Reviewers, I believe, often revie\v with- ^ out reading the books through ; but lay hold of c a topick, and write chiefly from their own minds....duller men, and are glad to read the, books through." Sir Joshua ! Reynolds said, that he wondered to find so much good writing employed in them, when the...
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The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.

James Boswell - 1820 - 520 pages
...establishments. The Critical Reviewers are for supporting the constitution both in Church and state. The Critical Reviewers, I believe, often review without reading the books through ; but lay hold of a topic, and write chiefly from their own minds. Th Monthly Reviewers are duller men, and are glad to...
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The life of Samuel Johnson, Volume 2

James Boswell - 1820 - 550 pages
...establishments. The Critical Reviewers are for supporting the constitution both in Church and state. The Critical Reviewers, I believe, often review without reading the books through ; but lay hold of «topic, and write chiefly from their own nnuds. The Monthly Reviewers are duller meo, and are glad...
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The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: Comprehending an Account of ..., Volume 3

James Boswell - 1821 - 376 pages
...Johnson I think rashly executed, when moribundus. porting the constitution both in church and state. * The Critical Reviewers, I believe, often review without...years in preparing his History, and that he employed a maa to point it for him; as if (laughing) another man could point his sense better than himself." Mr....
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The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D., Comprehending an Account of ..., Volume 3

James Boswell - 1824 - 438 pages
...establishments. The Critical Reviewers are for supporting the constitution both in church and state.1' The Critical Reviewers, I believe, often review without...lay hold of a topick, and write chiefly from their probably he had trusted to Shicls's word, and never looked at it so as to compare it with " The Lives...
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The Table Talk of Dr. Johnson: Comprising Opinions and Anecdotes of Life and ...

Samuel Johnson, James Boswell - 1825 - 370 pages
...Critical Reviewers, I believe, often review without reading the book through; but lay hold of a topic, and write chiefly from their own minds. The Monthly...duller men, and are glad to read the books through." Sir Joshua Reynolds said, that he wondered to find so much good writing employed in them, when the...
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