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A Grammar of the Italian Language: With a Copious Praxis of Moral Sentences ... - Page 262
by Giuseppe Baretti - 1778 - 448 pages
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The Rambler. ...

Samuel Johnson - 1750 - 296 pages
...over them as heterogeneous bodies, wiihout admiting their conceptions to mix in the circulation. A tranfition from an author's books to his converfation,...temples, and turrets of palaces, and imagine it the refidence of fplendor, grandeur, and magnificence ; but, when we have palled the gates, we find it...
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The Rambler. ...

Samuel Johnson - 1752 - 326 pages
...without admitting their conccptions to mix in the circulation. A TRANSITION from an author's books to bis converfation, is too often like an entrance into a large city, after a diftant profpec":. Remotely, we fee nothing but fpires of temples, and turrets of palaces, and imagine it the...
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Harrison's British Classicks, Volume 1

1785 - 596 pages
...their conceptions to mix in the circulation. A traniition from an author's book to his converlátion is too often like an entrance into a large city, after a uiltant profpeft. Remotely, we fee nothing but fpircs of temples, and turrets of palaces, and imagine...
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The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: The Rambler

Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787
...bodies, without admitting their conceptions to mix in the circulation. A tranfuion from an author's book to his converfation, is too often like an entrance...temples, and turrets of palaces, and imagine it the refidence of fplendor, grandeur, and magnificence; but, when we have palled the gates, we find it perplexed...
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The Rambler

Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 466 pages
...bodies, without admitting their conceptions to mix in the circulation. A tranfition from an author's book to his converfation, is too often like an entrance...temples, and turrets of palaces* and imagine it the refidence of fplendor, grandeur, and magnificence ; but, when we have pafled the gates, we find it...
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The Works of Samuel Johnson.LL.D..: The rambler

Samuel Johnson - 1792 - 626 pages
...bodies, without admitting their conceptions to mix in the circulation. A tranfition from an author's book to his converfation, is too often like an entrance...temples, and turrets of palaces, and imagine it the refidence of fplendor, grandeur, and magnificence ; but, when we have palled the gates, we find it...
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Biographiana, Volume 2

William Seward - 1799 - 376 pages
...and excellent fimilies in the Englifh language *, * " A tranfition from an author's book to ' " tion is too often like an entrance into a large city after a *' diftant profpeft : remotely we fee nothing but fpires of ' temples and turrets of palaces, and imagine it the...
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Rambler

Samuel Johnson - 1801 - 460 pages
...bodies, without admitting their conceptions to mix in the circulation. A tranfition from an author's book to his converfation, is too often like an entrance...temples and turrets of palaces, and imagine it the refidence of fplendour, grandeur, and magnificence ; but, when we have pafled the gates, we find it...
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The Rambler [by S. Johnson and others]., Volume 1

1801 - 342 pages
...bodies, without admitting their conceptions to mix in the circulation. A tranfition from an author's book to his converfation, is too often like an entrance...temples and turrets of palaces, and imagine it the refidence of fplendor, grandeur, and magnificence; but, when we have pafled the gates, we find it perplexed...
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The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.

Samuel Johnson - 1801 - 460 pages
...bodies, without admitting their conceptions to mix in the circulation. A tranfition from an author's book to his converfation, is too often like an entrance into a large city, after a diftant profpeft. Remotely, we fee nothing but fpires of temples and turrets of palaces, and imagine it the...
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