Boswell's Life of Johnson, Količina 1Macmillan, 1894 - 718 strani |
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Stran 11
... truth of which I am to refute upon his own authority . It is told , ' that , when a child of three years old , he chanced to tread upon a duckling , the eleventh of a brood , and killed it ; upon which , it is said , he dictated to his ...
... truth of which I am to refute upon his own authority . It is told , ' that , when a child of three years old , he chanced to tread upon a duckling , the eleventh of a brood , and killed it ; upon which , it is said , he dictated to his ...
Stran 194
... truth , however , is , that we judge of the happiness and misery of life differently at different times , according to the state of our changeable frame . I always remember a remark made to me by a Turkish lady , educated in France ...
... truth , however , is , that we judge of the happiness and misery of life differently at different times , according to the state of our changeable frame . I always remember a remark made to me by a Turkish lady , educated in France ...
Stran 254
... Truth will not afford sufficient food to their vanity ; so they have betaken themselves to error . Truth , Sir , is a cow which will yield such people no more milk , and so they are gone to milk the bull . If I could have allowed myself ...
... Truth will not afford sufficient food to their vanity ; so they have betaken themselves to error . Truth , Sir , is a cow which will yield such people no more milk , and so they are gone to milk the bull . If I could have allowed myself ...
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