Boswell's Life of Johnson: Life (v.l, 1709-1765; v.2 1765-1776; v.3, 1776-1780; v.4, 1780-1784)Clarendon Press, 1887 |
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Stran xvi
... arguments . The story is told that when Peter the Great was on his travels and far from his country , some members of the Russian Council I Post , ii . 212 . 2 Post , i . 7 . of Preface . xvii of State in St. Petersburgh ventured to.
... arguments . The story is told that when Peter the Great was on his travels and far from his country , some members of the Russian Council I Post , ii . 212 . 2 Post , i . 7 . of Preface . xvii of State in St. Petersburgh ventured to.
Stran xviii
... told of Johnson's listening to Dr. Sacheverel's sermon is not in any way improbable 10 , and that Johnson's ' censure ' of Lord Kames was quite just " . The ardent advocates of total abstinence will not , I fear , be pleased at finding ...
... told of Johnson's listening to Dr. Sacheverel's sermon is not in any way improbable 10 , and that Johnson's ' censure ' of Lord Kames was quite just " . The ardent advocates of total abstinence will not , I fear , be pleased at finding ...
Stran 2
... told him at the same time that the debts which he had contracted in his father's lifetime would not be cleared off for some years . The letter was endorsed by Sir Joshua : - ' I agree to the above conditions ; ' and the portrait was ...
... told him at the same time that the debts which he had contracted in his father's lifetime would not be cleared off for some years . The letter was endorsed by Sir Joshua : - ' I agree to the above conditions ; ' and the portrait was ...
Stran 35
... told me , he had not known it equalled but by Sacheverell's Trial . Johnson's Works , vii . 276 . In the Life of Sprat he is described by his son as ' an old man who had been no careless observer of the pass- ages of those times . ' Ib ...
... told me , he had not known it equalled but by Sacheverell's Trial . Johnson's Works , vii . 276 . In the Life of Sprat he is described by his son as ' an old man who had been no careless observer of the pass- ages of those times . ' Ib ...
Stran 38
... told me , that he remembered distinctly having had the first notice of Heaven , ' a place to which good people went , ' and hell , ' a place to which bad people went , ' communicated to him by her , when a little child in bed with her ...
... told me , that he remembered distinctly having had the first notice of Heaven , ' a place to which good people went , ' and hell , ' a place to which bad people went , ' communicated to him by her , when a little child in bed with her ...
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