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Natural Theology Considered: With Reference to Lord Brougham's Discourse on ... - Page 303
by Thomas Turton - 1836 - 354 pages
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The Six Chief Lives from Johnson's Lives of the Poets: With Macaulay's Life ...

Samuel Johnson - 1881 - 570 pages
...eye may , , ; easily discover expressions not very favourable to morals, or to__y j liberty. UEout this time Warburton began to make his appearance in...and vehement, supplied by incessant and unlimited enquiry, with wonderful extent and variety of knowledge, which yet had not impressed his imagination,...
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The Six Chief Lives from Johnson's Lives of the Poets: With Macaulay's "Life ...

Samuel Johnson - 1886 - 516 pages
...discover expressions not very favourable to morals, or to liberty. About this time Warburton*began to make his appearance in the first ranks of learning....and vehement, supplied by incessant and unlimited enquiry, with wonderful extent and variety of knowledge, which yet had not impressed his imagination,...
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Boswell's Life of Johnson: Life

James Boswell - 1887 - 512 pages
...See ante, i. 57. * Johnson thus describes Warburton (Works, viii. 288):— 'About this time [1732] Warburton began to make his appearance in the first...and vehement, supplied by incessant and unlimited enquiry, with wonderful extent and variety of knowledge.' Cradock (Memoirs, i. 188) says that ' Bishop...
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The Writer's Handbook, a Guide to the Art of Composition, Embracing a ...

1888 - 576 pages
...vigorous style ; though the general character of a writer cannot be collected from detached passages. About this time Warburton began to make his appearance...and vehement, supplied by incessant and unlimited enquiry, with wonderful extent and variety of knowledge, which yet had not oppressed his imagination,...
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Johnson's Life of Pope [ed.] by P. Peterson

Samuel Johnson - 1899 - 228 pages
...very favourable to morals, or to liberty. About this time Warburton began to make his appear- 20 ance in the first ranks of learning. He was a man of vigorous...and vehement, supplied by incessant and unlimited enquiry, with wonderful extent and variety of knowledge, which yet had not oppressed his imagination,...
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Life of Pope

Samuel Johnson - 1899 - 236 pages
...very favourable to morals, or to liberty. About this time Warburton began to make his appear- 20 ance in the first ranks of learning. He was a man of vigorous...and vehement, supplied by incessant and unlimited enquiry, with wonderful extent and variety of knowledge, which yet had not oppressed his imagination,...
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A Critical Dictionary of English Literature and British and American Authors ...

Samuel Austin Allibone - 1899 - 836 pages
...LORD Bo2672 : Essay on the Study of History : Bolingbrokc's Wort». 1754. 6 vole, n ... ii. 330. " He was a man of vigorous faculties, a mind fervid...vehement, supplied by incessant and unlimited inquiry with wni.derful extent and variety of knowledge, which yet had not oppressed hi» Imagination nor clouded...
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Handbook to the Cathedrals of England. Western Division, Volume 1

1903 - 464 pages
...the literary history of the century to be further noticed here. "He was a man," writes Dr. Johnson, "of vigorous faculties, a mind fervid and vehement, supplied by incessant and unlimited enquiry, with wonderful extent and variety of knowledge, which yet had not oppressed his imagination,...
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Lives of the English Poets: Swift-Lyttelton

Samuel Johnson - 1905 - 582 pages
...favourable to morals or to liberty 2. About this time Warburton began to make his appearance in 184 the first ranks of learning. He was a man of vigorous...and vehement, supplied by incessant and unlimited enquiry, with wonderful extent and variety of knowledge, which yet had not oppressed his imagination...
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Composition and Style

Robert D. Blackman - 1908 - 328 pages
...vigorous style ; though the general character of a writer cannot be collected from detached passages. About this time Warburton began to make his appearance...and vehement, supplied by incessant and unlimited enquiry, with wonderful extent and variety of knowledge, which yet had not oppressed his imagination,...
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