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The life of Samuel Johnson ... including A journal of a tour to the Hebrides ... - Page 243
by James Boswell - 1831
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The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides, with Samuel Johnson, LL.D.

James Boswell - 1785 - 548 pages
...inflexible in maintaining the obligations of piety and virtue, both from a regard to the order of fociety, and from a veneration for the Great Source of all order ; correct, nay ftern in his tafte ; hard to pleafe, and eafily offended ; impetuous aad irritable in his temper ;...
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The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides, with Samuel Johnson, LL. D.

James Boswell - 1785 - 546 pages
...inflexible in maintaining the obligations of piety and virtue, both from a regard to the order of fociety, and from a veneration for the Great Source of all order ; correct, nay ftern in his tafte ; hard to pleafe, and eafily offended ; impetuous and irritable in his temper ;...
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Gentleman's Magazine: And Historical Chronicle, Volume 55

1785 - 610 pages
...irritable in his temper; but of a mod humane and benevolent heart; having a mind ftoied with A vaft and various collection of learning and knowledge, which he communicated with peculiar pcrfpicuity and foicc.in rich and choice cxprelfion. He united a nioft logical head with a mod fertile...
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The Scots Magazine, Volume 47

1785 - 680 pages
...irritable in his temper, but of a moft humane and benevolent heart ; having л mind ftorcd with a vaft and various collection of learning and knowledge, which he communicated with peculiar perfpicuity and force, in rich and choice expreffion. He united a mod logical head with a moil fertile...
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The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides, with Samuel Johnson, LL.D.

James Boswell - 1786 - 478 pages
...irritable in his temper, but of a moft humane and benevolent heart ; having a mind ftored with a vaft and various collection of learning and knowledge, which he communicated with peculiar perfpicuity and force, in rich and choice expreffion. He united a moft logical head with a moft fertile...
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Annual Register, Volume 27

Edmund Burke - 1787 - 608 pages
...irritable in his temper, but of a moft humane and benevolent heart ; having a mind ftored with a vaft and various collection of learning and knowledge, which he communicated with peculiar perfpitaity and force, in rich and choice expreffion. He united a moft logical head with a moft fertile...
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The British Plutarch: Containing the Lives of the Most Eminent ..., Volume 8

1791 - 302 pages
...inflexible in mantaining the obligations of piety and virtue, both from a regard to the order of fociety, and from a veneration for the Great Source of all order ; correct, nay, flern in his tafte ; hard to pleafe and eafily offended ; impetuous and irritable in his temper, but...
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The Annual Register, Or, A View of the History, Politics, and ..., Volume 27

1800 - 600 pages
...irritable in his temper, but of a moft humane and benevolent heart ; having a mind ftorcd with a vaft and various collection of learning and knowledge, which he communicated with peculiar perfpicuity and force, in rich and choice expreffion. He united a moft logical head with a moft fertile...
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The Beauties of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Consisting of Maxims and Observations ...

Samuel Johnson - 1804 - 594 pages
...EC-- ganl for the order of society, and from a veneration, E 5. fbtfor the great Source of all order 5 correct, nay stern in his taste ; hard to please,...and easily offended ; impetuous and irritable in his Jerapcr, but of a most humane and benevolent Iwart, which showed itself not only in a most liberal...
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The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: Comprehending an Account of ..., Volume 3

James Boswell - 1807 - 562 pages
...inflexible in maintaining the obligations of religion and morality ; both from a regard for the order of society, and from a veneration for the GREAT SOURCE...temper, but of a most humane and benevolent heart,* • In the Ol'.a Podrida, a collection of Essays published at Oxford, there is an «d1784. which shewed...
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