Boswell's Life of Johnson, Količina 1Times Book Club, 1912 |
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Stran xvi
... know about him . JOHNSON : Wish ! Why , yes . If it rained knowledge I'd hold out my hand , but I would not give myself the trouble to go in quest of it . There xvi LIFE OF DR . JOHNSON How all this painstaking and drudgery contrasts ...
... know about him . JOHNSON : Wish ! Why , yes . If it rained knowledge I'd hold out my hand , but I would not give myself the trouble to go in quest of it . There xvi LIFE OF DR . JOHNSON How all this painstaking and drudgery contrasts ...
Stran xxi
... knowledge of men and things was bookish and notional . Johnson had a great range of fact . Next he had a strong mind operating upon and in love with life . Then , of course , whenever stirred by contact with his friends , and inflamed ...
... knowledge of men and things was bookish and notional . Johnson had a great range of fact . Next he had a strong mind operating upon and in love with life . Then , of course , whenever stirred by contact with his friends , and inflamed ...
Stran xxxiv
... knowledge and abilities , but on account of the magnificent , yet dangerous embassy in which he is now employed , which makes everything that relates to him peculiarly interesting . Lord Macartney favoured me with his own copy of my ...
... knowledge and abilities , but on account of the magnificent , yet dangerous embassy in which he is now employed , which makes everything that relates to him peculiarly interesting . Lord Macartney favoured me with his own copy of my ...
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... knowledge of books and literary 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 ...
... knowledge of books and literary 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 ...
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... knowledge , and makes haste to gratify the public curiosity , there is danger lest his interest , his fear , his gratitude , or his tenderness , overpower his fidelity , and tempt him to conceal , if not to invent . There are many who ...
... knowledge , and makes haste to gratify the public curiosity , there is danger lest his interest , his fear , his gratitude , or his tenderness , overpower his fidelity , and tempt him to conceal , if not to invent . There are many who ...
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