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The Universal Letter-writer; Or, New Art of Polite Correspondence ... - Page 142
by Rev. Thomas Cook (A.B.) - 1812 - 204 pages
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The Rambler [by S. Johnson and others]. [Another], Volume 2

1810 - 462 pages
...confidence of authority and dignity of importance; they look round about them at once with ignorance and scorn on a race of beings to whom they are equally...imitate, and with whose opinions they must comply, rf they desire to pass their time happily among them. To lessen that disdain with which scholars are...
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The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 5

Samuel Johnson - English literature - 1816 - 496 pages
...confidence of authority and dignity of importance; they look round about them at once with ignorance and scorn on a race of beings to whom they are equally...disdain with which scholars are inclined to look on the common business of the world, and the unwillingness with which they condescend to learn what is not...
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The Rambler

Alexander Chalmers - English essays - 1817 - 308 pages
...confidence of authority and dignity of importance ; they look round about them, at once with ignorance and scorn, on a race of beings to whom they are equally...them. To lessen that disdain with which scholars are in/ clined to look on the common business of the world and the unwillingness with which they condescend...
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The New Universal Letter Writer, Or, Complete Art of Polite Correspondence ...

Letter writing - 1818 - 254 pages
...confidence of authority, and dignity of importance; they look round about them at once with arrogance and scorn on a race of beings to whom they are equally...but whose manners they must imitate, and with whose ' Books, sayk Bacon, can never teach the use of books. The student must learn, by-commerce with mankind,...
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The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.

Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - English literature - 1820 - 456 pages
...confidence of authority and dignity of importance ; they look round about them at once with ignorance and scorn on a race of beings to whom they are equally...disdain with which scholars are inclined to look on the common business of the world, and the unwillingness with which they condescend to learn what is not...
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The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.

Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - English literature - 1820 - 462 pages
...confidence of authority and dignity of importance; they look round about them at once with ignorance and scorn on a race of beings to whom they are equally...disdain with which scholars are inclined to look on the common business of the world, and the unwillingness with which they condescend to learn what is not...
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The Speaker: Or Miscellaneous Pieces, Selected from the Best English Writers ...

William Enfield - 1823 - 412 pages
...confidence of authority, and dignity of importance ; they look round about them at once with ignorance and scorn on a race of beings, to whom they are equally...disdain with which scholars are inclined to look on the common business of the world, and the unwillingness with which they condescend to learn what is not...
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Continuation of the Rambler

Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - Authors, English - 1823 - 514 pages
...confidence of authority and dignity of importance ; they look round about them at once with ignorance and scorn on a race of beings to whom they are equally...disdain with which scholars are inclined to look on the common business of the world, and the unwillingness with which they condescend to learn what is not...
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The British essayists, with prefaces by A. Chalmers, Volumes 17-18

British essayists - 1823 - 820 pages
...authority and dignity of importance; they look round about them, at once with ignorance and scorn, on 8 race of beings to whom they are equally unknown and...disdain with which scholars are inclined to look on the common business of the world, and the unwillingness with which they condescend to learn what is not...
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The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: With Murphy's Essay, Volume 2

Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 702 pages
...confidence of authority and dignity of importance; they look round about them at once with ignorance and scorn on a race of beings to whom they are equally...disdain with which scholars are inclined to look on the common business of the world, and the unwillingness with which they condescend to learn what necessary...
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