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Samuel Johnson. C. WHITTINGHAM , Printe¡ , Goswell - Street , London . PREFACE . THE Preface to a collection like the present.
Samuel Johnson. C. WHITTINGHAM , Printe¡ , Goswell - Street , London . PREFACE . THE Preface to a collection like the present.
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... collection has been exerted with an anxious desire that it may prove worthy of public favour , but at the conclusion of the task , I cannot flatter myself that I have succeeded in forming the best plan , or in executing the plan which I ...
... collection has been exerted with an anxious desire that it may prove worthy of public favour , but at the conclusion of the task , I cannot flatter myself that I have succeeded in forming the best plan , or in executing the plan which I ...
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... Collection , that it in- cludes authors who have few admirers , and it is an objection which perhaps gains strength by time , but it ought always to be remembered , that the collection was not formed by that illustrious scholar , but by ...
... Collection , that it in- cludes authors who have few admirers , and it is an objection which perhaps gains strength by time , but it ought always to be remembered , that the collection was not formed by that illustrious scholar , but by ...
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... collection ; that it would be in vain to attempt to revive authors whom no person would read , and to fill thousands of pages with discarded prolixities , merely because they charac- terized the dulness of the age in which they were ...
... collection ; that it would be in vain to attempt to revive authors whom no person would read , and to fill thousands of pages with discarded prolixities , merely because they charac- terized the dulness of the age in which they were ...
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