Boswell's Life of Johnson (abridged)Houghton Mifflin, 1917 - 228 strani |
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... shewed to the world its dexterity , even when I was myself the object of it . I trusted that I should be liberally understood , as knowing very well what I was about , and by no means as simply unconscious of the pointed effects of the ...
... shewed to the world its dexterity , even when I was myself the object of it . I trusted that I should be liberally understood , as knowing very well what I was about , and by no means as simply unconscious of the pointed effects of the ...
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... shewed it to several peo- ple . His daughter , Mrs. Desmoulins , who was many years . humanely supported in Dr. Johnson's house in London , told me , that upon his discovering that Dr. Swinfen had communicated his case , he was so much ...
... shewed it to several peo- ple . His daughter , Mrs. Desmoulins , who was many years . humanely supported in Dr. Johnson's house in London , told me , that upon his discovering that Dr. Swinfen had communicated his case , he was so much ...
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... shewed a manly firmness , proved a most affectionate and indulgent husband to the last moment of Mrs. Johnson's life and in his Prayers and Meditations , we find very remarkable evidence that his regard and fond- ness for her never ...
... shewed a manly firmness , proved a most affectionate and indulgent husband to the last moment of Mrs. Johnson's life and in his Prayers and Meditations , we find very remarkable evidence that his regard and fond- ness for her never ...
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... shewed that he perfectly well knew what a variety of research such an undertaking required ; but his indolence prevented him from pursuing it with that diligence which alone can collect those scat- tered facts that genius , however ...
... shewed that he perfectly well knew what a variety of research such an undertaking required ; but his indolence prevented him from pursuing it with that diligence which alone can collect those scat- tered facts that genius , however ...
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... shewed the disturbance of his mind , by falling upon his knees , and saying his prayers in the street , or in any other unusual place . Now although , ra- tionally speaking , it is greater madness not to pray SLOVENLY FARTICULARITIES ...
... shewed the disturbance of his mind , by falling upon his knees , and saying his prayers in the street , or in any other unusual place . Now although , ra- tionally speaking , it is greater madness not to pray SLOVENLY FARTICULARITIES ...
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