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Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, to the Works of the English Poets - Page 14
by Samuel Johnson - 1781
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A New and General Biographical Dictionary: Containing an Historical and ...

Biography - 1784 - 778 pages
...man, acquainted with the common principles of human action, will look with veneration on thc'writer who is at one time combating Locke, and at another...Catechifm for children in their fourth year. A voluntary dd'ccnt from the dignity of fcience is perhaps the hardeft lellbn that humility can teach. As his mind...
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The Works of the British Poets: With Prefaces, Biographical and ..., Volume 9

Robert Anderson - English poetry - 1795 - 972 pages
...'life. Every man, acquainted with the common principles of human actions, will look with venerating on the writer, who is at one time combating Locke, and at another time making a Cateckifm {or Children in their fourth year. '• As his mind was capacious, his curiofity...
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Lives

Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1800 - 714 pages
...of advance in the morning ol life. Every man acquainted with the common principles of human aciion, will look with veneration on the writer, who is at one time combating Locke, and at another making a catechism for children in their fourth year. A voluntary descent from the dignity of sci-^ ence is...
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The works of the poets of Great Britain and Ireland. With prefaces ..., Volume 1

Great Britain - 1804 - 716 pages
...devotion, and systems of instruction, adapted to their wants and capacities, from the dawn of reason through its gradations of advance in the morning of...who is at one time combating Locke, and at another time making a catechism for children in their fourth year. A voluntary descent from the dignity of...
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The Monthly review. New and improved ser, Volume 45

1804 - 574 pages
...capacities of children. " Every man acquainted," says he, "with the common principles of human actions, will look with veneration on the writer, who is at one time combating Locke, and at another tine making a catechism for children in their fourth year." But how much greater still is the tribute...
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Letters on Silesia: Written During a Tour Through that Country in the Years ...

John Quincy Adams - Silesia - 1804 - 424 pages
...capacities of children. " Every man acquainted," fays he, " with the common principles of human actions, will look with veneration on the writer, who is at one time combating Locke, and at another time making a catechifm for children in their fourth. year." But how much greater ftill is the tribute...
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The Monthly Anthology, and Boston Review, Volume 4

David Phineas Adams, William Emerson, Samuel Cooper Thacher - 1807 - 786 pages
...necessary, we think a reference to Dr. Johnson's eulogy of Dr. Watts will be entirely satisfactory. «Every man acquainted with the common principles...who is at one time combating Locke, and at another time making a catechism for children in their -fourth year. A voluntary descent from the dignity of...
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The History and Antiquities of Dissenting Churches and Meeting ..., Volume 1

Walter Wilson - Church history - 1808 - 584 pages
...of advance in the morning of life. Every man, acquainted with the common principles of human nature, will look with veneration on the writer who is at...one time -combating Locke, and at another, making a catechism for children in their fourth year. A voluntary descent from the dignity of science is perhaps...
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The Panoplist, and Missionary Magazine United, Volume 4

Congregational churches - 1809 - 612 pages
...gentln, modest, and inoffensive." " Kvery man, acquainted with the common principles of human ac. tion, will look with veneration on the. writer who is at one time combating Locke, and at another time making a catechism for chil. dren in their fourth year." "Under his direction it may be truly...
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The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: With An Essay on His Life and ..., Volume 11

Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 404 pages
...devotion, and systems of instruction, adapted to their wants and capacities, from the dawn of reason through its gradations of advance in the morning of...one time combating Locke, and at another making a catechism for children in their fourth year. A voluntary descent from the dignity of science is perhaps...
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