Boswell's Life of Johnson, Količina 1Thomas Y. Crowell, 1892 - 526 strani |
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Stran xi
... true that we laugh at Boswell as often as we laugh with him . It is true that if he had not been willing to spare himself no more than he spared his friends his work would have lost much of its enter- tainment ; for though some of the ...
... true that we laugh at Boswell as often as we laugh with him . It is true that if he had not been willing to spare himself no more than he spared his friends his work would have lost much of its enter- tainment ; for though some of the ...
Stran 254
... true . I mentioned Hume's argument against the belief of miracles , that it is more probable that the witnesses to the truth of them are mistaken , or speak falsely , than that the miracles should be true . JOHNSON : " Why , Sir , the ...
... true . I mentioned Hume's argument against the belief of miracles , that it is more probable that the witnesses to the truth of them are mistaken , or speak falsely , than that the miracles should be true . JOHNSON : " Why , Sir , the ...
Stran 485
... true - born Englishman , so as to have entertained an undue prejudice against both the country and the people of Scotland , must be allowed . But it was a prejudice of the head , and not of the heart . He had no ill will to the Scotch ...
... true - born Englishman , so as to have entertained an undue prejudice against both the country and the people of Scotland , must be allowed . But it was a prejudice of the head , and not of the heart . He had no ill will to the Scotch ...
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