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The General Biographical Dictionary:: Containing an Historical and Critical ... - Page 144
by Alexander Chalmers - 1813
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The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 12

Samuel Johnson - 1816 - 564 pages
...not content to express in many words that idea for which any language could supply a single term. But his innovations are sometimes pleasing, and his temerities...who had very little fear of the shame of falling. There remains yet an objection against the writings of Browne, more formidable than the animadversions...
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The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.

Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1820 - 470 pages
...not content to express in many words that idea for which any language could supply a single term. But his innovations are sometimes pleasing, and his temerities...who had very little fear of the shame of falling. There remains yet an objection against the writings of Browne, more formidable than the animadversions...
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The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.

Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1820 - 472 pages
...found, but by venturing to the utmost verge of propriety; and flights which would never have beeit reached, but by one who had very little fear of the shame of falling. There remains yet an objection against the writings of Browne, more formidable than the animadversions...
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The works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 12

Samuel Johnson - 1824 - 564 pages
...But his innovations are sometimes pleasing, and his temerities happy ; he has many verba ardentiaf forcible expressions, which he would never have found,...who had very little fear of the shame of falling. There remains yet an objection against the writings of Browne, more formidable than the animadversions...
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The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: The lives of the English poets (cont ...

Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 682 pages
...not content to express in many words that idea for which any language could supply a single term. But his innovations are sometimes pleasing, and his temerities...who had very little fear of the shame of falling. There remains yet an objection against the writings of Browne, more formidable than the animadversions...
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The works of Samuel Johnson [ed. by F.P. Walesby].

Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 554 pages
...content to express, in many words, that idea for which any language could supply a single term. But his innovations are sometimes pleasing, and his temerities...who had very little fear of the shame of falling. There remains yet an objection against the writings of Browne, more formidable than the animadversions...
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The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.

Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 750 pages
...But his innovations are sometimes pleasing, and his temerities happy : be has many n-ria ardentía, forcible expressions, which he would never have found...reached, but by one who had very little fear of the »líame of falling. from which soma bare taken occasion to rank him among deists, aud others among...
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The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.

Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 532 pages
...ardenlia, forcible expressions, which he would never have found, but by venturing to the utmost versje of propriety; and flights which would never have been...who had very little fear of the shame of falling. There remains yet an objection against the writings of Browne, more formidable than the animadversions...
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Miscellaneous Works of Sir Thomas Browne: With Some Account of the Author ...

Sir Thomas Browne - 1831 - 362 pages
...not content to express in many words that idea for which any language could supply a single term. But his innovations are sometimes pleasing and his temerities...who had very little fear of the shame of falling. There remains yet an objection against the writings of Browne, more formidable than the animadversions...
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The Library of the Old English Prose Writers ...: Works of Sir Thomas Browne

1831 - 370 pages
...not content to express in many words that idea for which any language could supply a single term. But his innovations are sometimes pleasing and his temerities...who had very little fear of the shame of falling. There remains yet an objection against the writings of Browne, more formidable than the animadversions...
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