The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 2L. Hansard & sons, 1810 |
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... trades , so far as they can be supposed useful in the occurrences of common life . ) But there ought , however , to be some distinction made between the different classes of words ; and therefore it will be proper to print those which ...
... trades , so far as they can be supposed useful in the occurrences of common life . ) But there ought , however , to be some distinction made between the different classes of words ; and therefore it will be proper to print those which ...
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... , His silver skin laced with his golden blood , And his gash'd stabs look'd like a breach in nature , For ruin's wasteful entrance ; there the murtherers Steep'd Steep'd in the colours of their trade , their daggers 94 OBSERVATIONS ON THE.
... , His silver skin laced with his golden blood , And his gash'd stabs look'd like a breach in nature , For ruin's wasteful entrance ; there the murtherers Steep'd Steep'd in the colours of their trade , their daggers 94 OBSERVATIONS ON THE.
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Samuel Johnson. Steep'd in the colours of their trade , their daggers Unmannerly breech'd with gore : An unmannerly dagger and a dagger breeched , or as in some editions breach'd with gore , are expres- sions not easily to be understood ...
Samuel Johnson. Steep'd in the colours of their trade , their daggers Unmannerly breech'd with gore : An unmannerly dagger and a dagger breeched , or as in some editions breach'd with gore , are expres- sions not easily to be understood ...
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... trade of writing began at that time , and that it has ever since gradually increased in the number , though , perhaps , not in the style of those that followed it . In this reign was erected the first secret press against the church as ...
... trade of writing began at that time , and that it has ever since gradually increased in the number , though , perhaps , not in the style of those that followed it . In this reign was erected the first secret press against the church as ...
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... trade of distant nations with one another , and because they thought only on war and conquest , as their empire increased , commerce was discouraged ; till under the latter emperors , ships seem to have been of little other use than to ...
... trade of distant nations with one another , and because they thought only on war and conquest , as their empire increased , commerce was discouraged ; till under the latter emperors , ships seem to have been of little other use than to ...
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