Boswell's Life of Johnson: Including Boswell's Journal of a Tour of the Hebrides, and Johnson's Diary of a Journey Into North Wales, Količina 1Harper & Brothers, 1799 |
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Stran xviii
... writing it . My numerous extracts from the eleven vol- umes of his collected works will , I trust , not only give a truer insight into the nature of the man , but also will show the greatness of the author to a generation of readers who ...
... writing it . My numerous extracts from the eleven vol- umes of his collected works will , I trust , not only give a truer insight into the nature of the man , but also will show the greatness of the author to a generation of readers who ...
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... writing of Ma- caulay's criticism , he says : ' The attack defeated itself by its very violence , and therefore it did the book no harm what- Between forty and fifty thousand copies have been sold , although Macaulay boasted with great ...
... writing of Ma- caulay's criticism , he says : ' The attack defeated itself by its very violence , and therefore it did the book no harm what- Between forty and fifty thousand copies have been sold , although Macaulay boasted with great ...
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... writing agreeably . The Lord Chancellor [ Thurlow ] told me he had read every word of my Hebridian Journal ; ' he could not help it ; adding , ' could you give a rule how to write a book that a man must read ? I believe Longinus could ...
... writing agreeably . The Lord Chancellor [ Thurlow ] told me he had read every word of my Hebridian Journal ; ' he could not help it ; adding , ' could you give a rule how to write a book that a man must read ? I believe Longinus could ...
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... writing to Temple in 1775 , says : I try to keep a journal , and shall shew you that I have done tolerably ; but it is hardly credi- ble what ground I go over , and what a variety of men and manners I contemplate in a day ; and all the ...
... writing to Temple in 1775 , says : I try to keep a journal , and shall shew you that I have done tolerably ; but it is hardly credi- ble what ground I go over , and what a variety of men and manners I contemplate in a day ; and all the ...
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... writing , an inscrip- tion of such high commendation , that even I , vain as I am , cannot prevail on myself to publish it . [ July 1 , 1793 ' ] ' Lord Macartney was the first English ambassador to the Court of Pekin . He left England ...
... writing , an inscrip- tion of such high commendation , that even I , vain as I am , cannot prevail on myself to publish it . [ July 1 , 1793 ' ] ' Lord Macartney was the first English ambassador to the Court of Pekin . He left England ...
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