Boswell's Life of Johnson, Količina 1Times Book Club, 1912 |
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Stran xxi
... mind operating upon and in love with life . Then , of course , whenever stirred by contact with his friends , and inflamed by the passion for contradiction , or justly irritated by the flimsy platitudes of fools , he had ready for ...
... mind operating upon and in love with life . Then , of course , whenever stirred by contact with his friends , and inflamed by the passion for contradiction , or justly irritated by the flimsy platitudes of fools , he had ready for ...
Stran xxii
... mind , and leisure to talk . The most noticeable characteristics of Johnson's talk seem to be good sense , brilliant wit , and a lively dialectical imagination , which enabled him joyfully and triumphantly to pursue his subject and ...
... mind , and leisure to talk . The most noticeable characteristics of Johnson's talk seem to be good sense , brilliant wit , and a lively dialectical imagination , which enabled him joyfully and triumphantly to pursue his subject and ...
Stran xxvii
... mind that the whole truth is not always to be exposed . This , however , I have managed so as to occasion no diminution of the pleasure which my book should afford ; though malignity may sometimes be disappointed of its gratification ...
... mind that the whole truth is not always to be exposed . This , however , I have managed so as to occasion no diminution of the pleasure which my book should afford ; though malignity may sometimes be disappointed of its gratification ...
Stran xxviii
... mind and prompt assiduity by which so many conversations were preserved , I myself , at some distance of time , contemplate with wonder ; and I must be allowed to suggest , that the nature of the work in other respects , as it consists ...
... mind and prompt assiduity by which so many conversations were preserved , I myself , at some distance of time , contemplate with wonder ; and I must be allowed to suggest , that the nature of the work in other respects , as it consists ...
Stran xxxii
... mind , when we 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 ...
... mind , when we 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 ...
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