Boswell's Life of Johnson, Količina 1Times Book Club, 1912 |
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... history , and indeed in very truth one of the most insignificant of things . If that were true in 1832 of so pretentious an edition of Boswell's Johnson as Mr. Croker's , the insignificance of the present publication is almost startling ...
... history , and indeed in very truth one of the most insignificant of things . If that were true in 1832 of so pretentious an edition of Boswell's Johnson as Mr. Croker's , the insignificance of the present publication is almost startling ...
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... history all ought to be told . ' Such a sanction to my faculty of giving a just repre- sentation of Dr. Johnson I could not conceal . Nor will I suppress my satisfaction in the consciousness , that by recording so considerable a portion ...
... history all ought to be told . ' Such a sanction to my faculty of giving a just repre- sentation of Dr. Johnson I could not conceal . Nor will I suppress my satisfaction in the consciousness , that by recording so considerable a portion ...
Stran xxxiii
... history , is exhibited by the author for the best advantage of his readers : -Quid virtus et quid sapientia possit , Utile proposuit nobis exemplar Ulyssen . Should there be any cold - blooded and morose mortals who really dislike this ...
... history , is exhibited by the author for the best advantage of his readers : -Quid virtus et quid sapientia possit , Utile proposuit nobis exemplar Ulyssen . Should there be any cold - blooded and morose mortals who really dislike this ...
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... history , that clearness of narration and elegance of language in which he has embalmed so many eminent persons , the world would probably have had the most perfect example of biography that was ever exhibited . But although he at ...
... history , that clearness of narration and elegance of language in which he has embalmed so many eminent persons , the world would probably have had the most perfect example of biography that was ever exhibited . But although he at ...
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... history ; but from the rigid formality of his manners , it is evident that they never could have lived together with com- panionable ease and familiarity ; nor had Sir John Hawkins that nice perception which was necessary to mark the ...
... history ; but from the rigid formality of his manners , it is evident that they never could have lived together with com- panionable ease and familiarity ; nor had Sir John Hawkins that nice perception which was necessary to mark the ...
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