Boswell's Life of Johnson, Količina 1Times Book Club, 1912 |
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Stran xxxii
... consider that the principal store of wit and wisdom which this Work contains was not a particular selection from his general conversation , but was merely his occasional talk at such times as I had the good fortune to be in his company ...
... consider that the principal store of wit and wisdom which this Work contains was not a particular selection from his general conversation , but was merely his occasional talk at such times as I had the good fortune to be in his company ...
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... consider as the peculiar value of the fol- lowing work , is , the quantity it contains of Johnson's conversation , which is universally acknowledged to have been eminently instructive and entertaining ; and of which the specimens that I ...
... consider as the peculiar value of the fol- lowing work , is , the quantity it contains of Johnson's conversation , which is universally acknowledged to have been eminently instructive and entertaining ; and of which the specimens that I ...
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... considering how highly the small portion which we have of the table- talk and other anecdotes of our celebrated writers is valued , and how earnestly it is regretted that we have not more , I am justified in preserving rather too many ...
... considering how highly the small portion which we have of the table- talk and other anecdotes of our celebrated writers is valued , and how earnestly it is regretted that we have not more , I am justified in preserving rather too many ...
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... considering how highly the small portion which we have of the table- talk and other anecdotes of our celebrated writers is valued , and how earnestly it is regretted that we have not more , I am justified in preserving rather too many ...
... considering how highly the small portion which we have of the table- talk and other anecdotes of our celebrated writers is valued , and how earnestly it is regretted that we have not more , I am justified in preserving rather too many ...
Stran 12
... considers only as topics of ridicule ; yet there is a traditional story of the infant Hercules of toryism , so curiously characteristic that I shall not withhold it . It was communicated to me in a letter from Miss Mary Ady of Lichfield ...
... considers only as topics of ridicule ; yet there is a traditional story of the infant Hercules of toryism , so curiously characteristic that I shall not withhold it . It was communicated to me in a letter from Miss Mary Ady of Lichfield ...
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