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The Rambler. ... - Page 30
by Samuel Johnson - 1752
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The British Essayists: Rambler

James Ferguson - 1823 - 476 pages
...with heroes and with traitors, deliverers and persecutors as with beings of another species, whose actions were regulated upon motives of their own, and who had neither faults nor excellences in common with himself. But when an adventurer is leveled with the rest of the world, and...
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The Works of Samuel Johnson: The Rambler

Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 526 pages
...with heroes and with traitors, deliverers and persecutors, as with beings of another species, whose actions were regulated upon motives of their own,...had neither faults nor excellencies in common with himself. But when an adventurer is levelled with the rest of the world, and acts in such scenes of...
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Murphy's essay. The rambler. The adventurer. The idler. Rasselas. Tales of ...

Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1834 - 630 pages
...with heroes and with traitors, deliverers and persecutors, as with beings of another species, whose uel Johnson excellences in common with himself. But when an adventurer is levelled with the rest of the world,...
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The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: An essay on the life and genius of ...

Samuel Johnson - 1837 - 630 pages
...with heroes and with traitors, deliverers and persecutors, as with bebigs of another species, whose actions were regulated upon motives of their own, and who had neither faults nor excellences in common with himself. But when an adventurer is levelled with the rest of the world,...
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The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.

Samuel Johnson - 1840 - 624 pages
...with heroes and with traitors, deliverers and persecutors, as with beings of another species, whose actions were regulated upon motives of their own, and who had neither faults nor excellences in common with himself. But when an adventurer is levelled with the rest of the world,...
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Wit and Wisdom of Samuel Johnson, Volume 1

Samuel Johnson - 1888 - 360 pages
...with heroes and with traitors, deliverers and persecutors, as with beings of another species, whose actions were regulated upon motives of their own, and who had neither faults nor excellences in common with himself. But when an adventurer is levelled with the rest of the world and...
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Selections from the Works of Samuel Johnson

Samuel Johnson - 1909 - 562 pages
...with heroes and with traitors, deliverers and persecutors, as with beings of another species, whose 15 actions were regulated upon motives of their own,...had neither faults nor excellencies in common with himself. But when an adventurer is levelled with the rest of the world, and acts in such scenes of...
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The Gutenberg Galaxy: The Making of Typographic Man

Marshall McLuhan - 1962 - 306 pages
...with heroes and with traitors, deliverers and persecutors, as with beings of another species, whose actions were regulated upon motives of their own,...had neither faults nor excellencies in common with himself. But when an adventurer is levelled with the rest of the world, and acts in such scenes of...
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Literary Criticism: Pope to Croce

Gay Wilson Allen, Harry Hayden Clark - 1962 - 676 pages
...with heroes and with traitors, deliverers and persecutors, as with beings of another species, whose actions were regulated upon motives of their own,...had neither faults nor excellencies in common with himself. But when an adventurer is leveled with the rest of the world, and acts in such scenes of the...
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Essays from the Rambler, Adventurer, and Idler

Samuel Johnson - 1968 - 400 pages
...with heroes and with traitors, deliverers and persecutors, as with beings of another species, whose actions were regulated upon motives of their own,...had neither faults nor excellencies in common with himself. But when an adventurer is levelled with the rest of the world, and acts in such scenes of...
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