Biographiana, Volume 2J. Johnson, 1799 - Anecdotes |
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... felf capable of being a great minifter ? " On being told of this , Racine exclaimed , " I am a dead man , " ran into his bed - chamber , * The collections that those great men had made for the Hiftory were burnt in a fire at M. de ...
... felf capable of being a great minifter ? " On being told of this , Racine exclaimed , " I am a dead man , " ran into his bed - chamber , * The collections that those great men had made for the Hiftory were burnt in a fire at M. de ...
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William Seward. f $ tranfports of anger by which he fuffered him- felf to be too often agitated . Peter in his infancy had a dread of the water . This antipathy he corrected by dint of perfeverance ; and half his time was spent in ...
William Seward. f $ tranfports of anger by which he fuffered him- felf to be too often agitated . Peter in his infancy had a dread of the water . This antipathy he corrected by dint of perfeverance ; and half his time was spent in ...
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... felf- " felf - commendation , declaring it to be an BIOGRAPHIANA . 411 ́-BEN JONSON. ...
... felf- " felf - commendation , declaring it to be an BIOGRAPHIANA . 411 ́-BEN JONSON. ...
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William Seward. " felf - commendation , declaring it to be an " ill - favoured folecifm in good manners . " WILLIAM DRUMMOND , OF HAWTHORNDEN . " As he was a very wife and learned man , ” fays his biographer , " fo he was very pious ...
William Seward. " felf - commendation , declaring it to be an " ill - favoured folecifm in good manners . " WILLIAM DRUMMOND , OF HAWTHORNDEN . " As he was a very wife and learned man , ” fays his biographer , " fo he was very pious ...
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... felf , interprets beft fayings and deeds often " to the worst , He was for any religion , as • being verfed in both ; oppreffed with fancy , " which hath over - mastered his reafon , a ge- " neral disease in many poets . His inventions ...
... felf , interprets beft fayings and deeds often " to the worst , He was for any religion , as • being verfed in both ; oppreffed with fancy , " which hath over - mastered his reafon , a ge- " neral disease in many poets . His inventions ...
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