The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 8Pafraets Book Company, 1903 |
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Page 10
... virtue , yet the gods his fate decreed . Then Hypanis and Dymas , wounded by Their friends ; nor thee , Pantheus , thy piety , Nor consecrated mitre , from the same Ill fate could save ; my country's funeral flame And Troy's cold ashes ...
... virtue , yet the gods his fate decreed . Then Hypanis and Dymas , wounded by Their friends ; nor thee , Pantheus , thy piety , Nor consecrated mitre , from the same Ill fate could save ; my country's funeral flame And Troy's cold ashes ...
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... virtue ; and all tell what they do not know to be true , only to excuse an act which no wise man will consider as in itself disgraceful . His father was alive ; his allowance 1 This is inaccurately expressed : Philips , and Dr. Newton ...
... virtue ; and all tell what they do not know to be true , only to excuse an act which no wise man will consider as in itself disgraceful . His father was alive ; his allowance 1 This is inaccurately expressed : Philips , and Dr. Newton ...
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... virtues and ex- cellencies of all times and of all places ; we are per- petually moralists , but we are geometricians only by chance . Our intercourse with intellectual nature is necessary ; our speculations upon matter are vol- untary ...
... virtues and ex- cellencies of all times and of all places ; we are per- petually moralists , but we are geometricians only by chance . Our intercourse with intellectual nature is necessary ; our speculations upon matter are vol- untary ...
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... virtue of those testimonies which are alleged to that purpose in some late treatises , one whereof goes under the name of James , lord bishop of Armagh . I have transcribed this title to show , by his con- temptuous mention of Usher ...
... virtue of those testimonies which are alleged to that purpose in some late treatises , one whereof goes under the name of James , lord bishop of Armagh . I have transcribed this title to show , by his con- temptuous mention of Usher ...
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... virtue , over- powering and resistless , every man gives way , ex- cept some who , without equal qualifications , aspire to equal honours , who envy the distinctions of merit , greater than their own , or who have yet to learn , that ...
... virtue , over- powering and resistless , every man gives way , ex- cept some who , without equal qualifications , aspire to equal honours , who envy the distinctions of merit , greater than their own , or who have yet to learn , that ...
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