Boswell's Life of Johnson, Količina 1Henry Frowde, 1904 - 704 strani |
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... truth , I have still kept in my mind that the whole truth is not always to be exposed . This , however , I have managed so as to occasion no diminution of the pleasure which my book should afford ; though malignity may sometimes be ...
... truth , I have still kept in my mind that the whole truth is not always to be exposed . This , however , I have managed so as to occasion no diminution of the pleasure which my book should afford ; though malignity may sometimes be ...
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... truth 1 . ' What I consider as the peculiar value of the following work , is , the quantity it contains of Johnson's conversa- tion ; which is universally acknowledged to have been eminently instructive and entertaining ; and of which ...
... truth 1 . ' What I consider as the peculiar value of the following work , is , the quantity it contains of Johnson's conversa- tion ; which is universally acknowledged to have been eminently instructive and entertaining ; and of which ...
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... truth of which I am to refute upon his own authority . It is told 1 , 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 1 , 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 ...
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... truth , how- ever , is , that he was not so well qualified for being a teacher of elements , and a conductor in learning by regular grada- tions , as men of inferiour powers of mind . His own acqui- sitions had been made by fits and ...
... truth , how- ever , is , that he was not so well qualified for being a teacher of elements , and a conductor in learning by regular grada- tions , as men of inferiour powers of mind . His own acqui- sitions had been made by fits and ...
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... truth is every where confess'd , SLOW RISES WORTH , BY POVERTY DEPRESS'D ! ' [ 1738 We may easily conceive with what feeling a great mind like his , cramped and galled by narrow circumstances , uttered this last line , which he marked ...
... truth is every where confess'd , SLOW RISES WORTH , BY POVERTY DEPRESS'D ! ' [ 1738 We may easily conceive with what feeling a great mind like his , cramped and galled by narrow circumstances , uttered this last line , which he marked ...
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