Boswell's Life of Johnson: Including Boswell's Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides and Johnson's Diary of a Journey Into North Wales, Količina 3Bigelow, Brown, 1780 |
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... John Pringle had lent me , it being then little known as one of his works ' . He said , ' Take no notice of it , ' or ' don't talk of it . ' He seemed to think it beneath him , though done at six - and - twenty . I said to him , ' Your ...
... John Pringle had lent me , it being then little known as one of his works ' . He said , ' Take no notice of it , ' or ' don't talk of it . ' He seemed to think it beneath him , though done at six - and - twenty . I said to him , ' Your ...
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... John- son was of the same opinion . He upon another occasion , when a friend mentioned to him several extraordinary facts , as communicated to him by the circumnavigators , slily observed , ' Sir , I never before knew how much I was ...
... John- son was of the same opinion . He upon another occasion , when a friend mentioned to him several extraordinary facts , as communicated to him by the circumnavigators , slily observed , ' Sir , I never before knew how much I was ...
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... John- son , said that ' as every gentleman's servants each consumed daily six pints , it surely is not to be required that a soldier should live in a per- petual state of warfare with his constitution . ' Ib . p . 418. Burke , writ- ing ...
... John- son , said that ' as every gentleman's servants each consumed daily six pints , it surely is not to be required that a soldier should live in a per- petual state of warfare with his constitution . ' Ib . p . 418. Burke , writ- ing ...
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... JOHN- SON . ' Why , Sir ; to be sure when you wish a man to have that belief which you think is of infinite advantage , you wish well to him ; but your primary consideration is your own quiet . If a madman were to come into this room ...
... JOHN- SON . ' Why , Sir ; to be sure when you wish a man to have that belief which you think is of infinite advantage , you wish well to him ; but your primary consideration is your own quiet . If a madman were to come into this room ...
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... John's , left Oxford in 1778. In his Liberal Edu- cation , published in 1781 , he wrote : - ' I saw immorality , habitual drunkenness , idleness and ignorance , boastingly obtruding themselves on public view . ' Knox's Works , iv . 138 ...
... John's , left Oxford in 1778. In his Liberal Edu- cation , published in 1781 , he wrote : - ' I saw immorality , habitual drunkenness , idleness and ignorance , boastingly obtruding themselves on public view . ' Knox's Works , iv . 138 ...
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