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" The business of the biographer is often to pass slightly over those performances and incidents which produce vulgar greatness, to lead the thoughts into domestick privacies, and display the minute details of daily life, where exterior appendages are cast... "
Pantologia. A new (cabinet) cyclopędia, by J.M. Good, O. Gregory, and N ...
by John Mason Good - 1813
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Harrison's British Classicks, Volume 1

1785 - 596 pages
...privacies, and difplay the minute details of daily life, where exterior appendages are caft aflde,and men excel each other only by prudence and by virtue. The account of Thuanus is, with great propriety, faid by it's author to have been written, that k might lay open to pofterity the private and familiar...
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The Rambler

Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 466 pages
...privacies, and difplay the minute details of daily life, where exterior appendages arc caft afide, and men excel each other only by prudence and by virtue. The account of Thuanus is, with great propriety, faid by its author to have been written, that it might lay open to pofterity the private and familiar...
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The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: The Rambler

Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - English literature - 1787
...privacies, and difplay the minute details of' daily life, where exterior appendages are caft afkie, and men excel each other only by prudence and by virtue. The account of Thuanus is, with great propriety, faid by its author to have been written, that it might lay open to pofterity the private and familiar...
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The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Comprehending an Account of His ..., Volume 1

James Boswell - 1791 - 556 pages
...privacies, and difplay the minute details of daily life, where exterior appendages are caft afide, and men excel each other only by prudence and by virtue. The account of Thuanus is with great propriety faid by its authour to have been written, that it might lay open to pofteriry the private and familiar...
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The Works of Samuel Johnson.LL.D..: The rambler

Samuel Johnson - 1792 - 626 pages
...privacies, and difplay the minute details of daily life, where exterior appendages are caft afide, and men excel each other only by prudence and by virtue. The account of Thuanus is, with great propriety, faid by its author to have been written, that it might lay open to pofterity the private and familiar...
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Boswell's Life of Johnson: Including Boswell's Journal of a Tour ..., Volume 1

James Boswell - Hebrides (Scotland) - 1799 - 640 pages
...the thoughts into domestick privacies, and display the minute details of daily life, where exteriour appendages are cast aside, and men excel each other...account of Thuanus is with great propriety said by its authour to have been written, that it might lay open to posterity the private and familiar character...
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Life of Johnson: Including Boswell's Journal of a Tour to the ..., Volume 1

James Boswell - 1799 - 648 pages
...the thoughts into domestick privacies, and display the minute details of daily life, where exteriour appendages are cast aside, and men excel each other...account of Thuanus is with great propriety said by its authour to have been written, that it might lay open to posterity the private and familiar character...
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The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Comprehending an Account of His Studies ...

James Boswell - 1799 - 496 pages
...the thoughts into domestick. privacies, and display the minute details of daily life, where exteriour appendages are cast aside, and men excel each other...account of Thuanus is with great propriety said by its authour to have been written, that it might lay open to posterity the private and familiar character...
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The Rambler [by S. Johnson and others]., Volume 2

1801 - 326 pages
...privacies, and difplay the minute details of daily life, where exterior appendages are caft afide, and men excel each other only by prudence and by virtue. The account of Thuanus is, with great propriety, faid by its author to have been written, that it might lay open to pofterity the private and familiar...
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Rambler

Samuel Johnson - 1801 - 460 pages
...privacies, and difplay the minute details of daily life, where exterior appendages are caft afide, and men excel each other only by prudence and by virtue. The account of Thuanus is, with great propriety, faid by its author to have been written, that it might lay open to pofterity the private and familiar...
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