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Page 22
... endeavours of a com- pany of miffionaries of the author's country to unite the Abyffins to the church of Rome . It was transla- ted from the original Portuguese into French by l'Abbé Le Grand , who , as Lobo had extended it no farther ...
... endeavours of a com- pany of miffionaries of the author's country to unite the Abyffins to the church of Rome . It was transla- ted from the original Portuguese into French by l'Abbé Le Grand , who , as Lobo had extended it no farther ...
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... endeavours to make them abjure their errors . When we were weary with fpeaking , we placed in ranks those who were fuffi- ciently instructed , and paffing through them with great veffels of water , baptized them according to the form ...
... endeavours to make them abjure their errors . When we were weary with fpeaking , we placed in ranks those who were fuffi- ciently instructed , and paffing through them with great veffels of water , baptized them according to the form ...
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... endeavours founded on the principles of the Jefuits . Having completed this tranflation , which I con- jecture he was paid for by fome bookfeller of Birming- ham , who published it in an octavo volume , Johnson , in February 1733-4 ...
... endeavours founded on the principles of the Jefuits . Having completed this tranflation , which I con- jecture he was paid for by fome bookfeller of Birming- ham , who published it in an octavo volume , Johnson , in February 1733-4 ...
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... endeavours of his art to the spread- ing of the contagion . It was the hard fate of this per- fon , a fhort time after , to die a prisoner for debt , in Ludgate : Johnson related this circumstance to us , with the tears ready to start ...
... endeavours of his art to the spread- ing of the contagion . It was the hard fate of this per- fon , a fhort time after , to die a prisoner for debt , in Ludgate : Johnson related this circumstance to us , with the tears ready to start ...
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... endeavours of the perfon in power , nor shall I mark the folly of those who fuffer themselves to be fo deluded : the fucceffion of knave to knave , and fool to fool , is hereditary and inter- minable our fathers were deceived by the pre ...
... endeavours of the perfon in power , nor shall I mark the folly of those who fuffer themselves to be fo deluded : the fucceffion of knave to knave , and fool to fool , is hereditary and inter- minable our fathers were deceived by the pre ...
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Page 550 - The busy day, the peaceful night, Unfelt, uncounted, glided by ; His frame was firm, his powers were bright, Though now his eightieth year was nigh. Then, with no throbs of fiery pain, No cold gradations of decay, Death broke at once the vital chain, And freed his soul the nearest way.
Page 484 - I was born in the eighth climate, but seem to be framed and constellated unto all. I am no plant that will not prosper out of a garden. All places, all airs, make unto me one country ; I am in England everywhere, and under any meridian.
Page 198 - For we that live to please, must please to live. Then prompt no more the follies you decry, As tyrants doom their tools of guilt to die...
Page 289 - I have familiarized the terms of philosophy, by applying them to popular ideas, but have rarely admitted any word not authorized by former writers...
Page 360 - I look upon this as I did upon the Dictionary: it is all work, and my inducement to it is not love or desire of fame, but the want of money, which is the only motive to writing that I know of.
Page 342 - Have put their whole drama and epick to flight ; In satires, epistles, and odes, would they cope, Their numbers retreat before Dryden and Pope ; And Johnson, well arm'd like a hero of yore, Has beat forty French *, and will beat forty more...
Page 62 - ... but, unfortunately, he is not capable of receiving their bounty, which would make him happy for life...
Page 126 - Excursions of fancy, and flights of oratory, are indeed, pardonable in young men, but in no other; and it would surely contribute more, even to the purpose for which some gentlemen appear to speak, (that of depreciating the conduct of the...
Page 347 - Certainly, it is heaven upon earth, to have a man's mind move in charity, rest in providence, and turn upon the poles of truth.
Page 492 - That our ancestors, who first settled these colonies, were at the time of their emigration from the mother country, entitled to all the rights, liberties, and immunities of free and natural-born subjects, within the realm of England.