Boswell's Life of Johnson, Količina 1Times Book Club, 1912 |
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Stran vii
... 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 . Boswell's immortal ...
... 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 . Boswell's immortal ...
Stran xxii
... truth of Chris- tianity , he said : ' It is always easy to be on the negative side . If a man were now to deny that there is salt upon the table , you could not reduce him to an absurdity . Come , let us try this a little further . I ...
... truth of Chris- tianity , he said : ' It is always easy to be on the negative side . If a man were now to deny that there is salt upon the table , you could not reduce him to an absurdity . Come , let us try this a little further . I ...
Stran xxvii
... truth , I have still kept in my 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 ...
... truth , I have still kept in my 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 ...
Stran xxxii
... truth the progress of the present Work furnishes a striking instance . It was highly gratifying to me that my friend , Sir Joshua Reynolds , to whom it is inscribed , lived to peruse it , and to give the strongest testimony to its ...
... truth the progress of the present Work furnishes a striking instance . It was highly gratifying to me that my friend , Sir Joshua Reynolds , to whom it is inscribed , lived to peruse it , and to give the strongest testimony to its ...
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... truth.'1 What 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 ...
... truth.'1 What 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 ...
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