Boswell's Life of Johnson, Količina 1Henry Frowde, 1904 - 704 strani |
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... reason I had to hope for the countenance of that venerable Gentleman to this Work , will appear from what he wrote to me upon a former occasion from Oxford , November 17 , 1785 : - Dear Sir , I hazard this letter , not knowing where it ...
... reason I had to hope for the countenance of that venerable Gentleman to this Work , will appear from what he wrote to me upon a former occasion from Oxford , November 17 , 1785 : - Dear Sir , I hazard this letter , not knowing where it ...
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... reason to hope for out of my father's effects , previous to the death of my mother ; an event which I pray GOD may be very remote . I now there- fore see that I must make my own fortune . Meanwhile , let me take care that the powers of ...
... reason to hope for out of my father's effects , previous to the death of my mother ; an event which I pray GOD may be very remote . I now there- fore see that I must make my own fortune . Meanwhile , let me take care that the powers of ...
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... reason has there been , both for himself and his country , to rejoice that it did not succeed , as he might probably have wasted in obscurity those hours in which he afterwards produced his incomparable works . About this time he made ...
... reason has there been , both for himself and his country , to rejoice that it did not succeed , as he might probably have wasted in obscurity those hours in which he afterwards produced his incomparable works . About this time he made ...
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... reason , any com- pany , any employment whatever , he preferred to being alone . The great business of his life ( he said ) was to escape from himself ; this disposition he considered as the disease of his mind , which nothing cured but ...
... reason , any com- pany , any employment whatever , he preferred to being alone . The great business of his life ( he said ) was to escape from himself ; this disposition he considered as the disease of his mind , which nothing cured but ...
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... support what appears to me most consonant to grammar and reason . Ausonius thought that modesty forbade him to 1 September 22 , 1777 , going from Ashbourne in Derbyshire , to see Islam . 126 THE EARL OF ORRERY کر [ 1747 plead inability.
... support what appears to me most consonant to grammar and reason . Ausonius thought that modesty forbade him to 1 September 22 , 1777 , going from Ashbourne in Derbyshire , to see Islam . 126 THE EARL OF ORRERY کر [ 1747 plead inability.
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