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 1Bigelow, Brown & Company, 1799 |
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Stran xv
... once more examined the originals . ' Diligence and accuracy , ' writes Gibbon , are the only merits which an historical writer may ascribe to himself ; if any merit indeed can be assumed from the performance of an indispensable duty ...
... once more examined the originals . ' Diligence and accuracy , ' writes Gibbon , are the only merits which an historical writer may ascribe to himself ; if any merit indeed can be assumed from the performance of an indispensable duty ...
Stran xvii
... Once or twice in the course of my reading I have come upon essays which had escaped the notice of his biographer , but which bear the marks of his workman- ship . To these I have given a reference . While the minute examination that I ...
... Once or twice in the course of my reading I have come upon essays which had escaped the notice of his biographer , but which bear the marks of his workman- ship . To these I have given a reference . While the minute examination that I ...
Stran xxi
... once shown to lexicographers ? ' I approve , ' writes his Lordship , ' the devotion of a studious man at Christ Church , who was overheard in his oratory entering into a detail with God , and acknowledging the divine goodness in ...
... once shown to lexicographers ? ' I approve , ' writes his Lordship , ' the devotion of a studious man at Christ Church , who was overheard in his oratory entering into a detail with God , and acknowledging the divine goodness in ...
Stran 32
... once belonged to the same club , but that as he eat no supper , after the first night of his admission he de- sired to be excused paying his share . " And was he excused ? " " O yes ; for no man is angry at another for being inferior to ...
... once belonged to the same club , but that as he eat no supper , after the first night of his admission he de- sired to be excused paying his share . " And was he excused ? " " O yes ; for no man is angry at another for being inferior to ...
Stran 33
... once lived in great intimacy with him . There is , in the British Museum , a letter from Bishop War- burton to Dr. Birch , on the subject of biography ; which , though I am aware it may expose me to a charge of art- fully raising the ...
... once lived in great intimacy with him . There is , in the British Museum , a letter from Bishop War- burton to Dr. Birch , on the subject of biography ; which , though I am aware it may expose me to a charge of art- fully raising the ...
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