Boswell's Life of Johnson, Količina 4 |
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Stran 31
On my expressing my wonder at his discovering so much of the knowledge peculiar to different professions ... When I expressed a wish to know more about Mr. Ballow , Johnson said , “ Sir , I have seen him but once these twenty years .
On my expressing my wonder at his discovering so much of the knowledge peculiar to different professions ... When I expressed a wish to know more about Mr. Ballow , Johnson said , “ Sir , I have seen him but once these twenty years .
Stran 106
The truths you have told , and the purity of the language in which they are expressed , as your Journey is universally read , may , and already appear to have a very good effect . For a man of my acquaintance , who has the largest ...
The truths you have told , and the purity of the language in which they are expressed , as your Journey is universally read , may , and already appear to have a very good effect . For a man of my acquaintance , who has the largest ...
Stran 256
One of the company asked him the meaning of the expression in Juvenal , unius lacertæ . JOHNSON : ' I think it clear enough ; as much ground as one may have a chance to find a lizard upon . ' Commentators have differed as to the exact ...
One of the company asked him the meaning of the expression in Juvenal , unius lacertæ . JOHNSON : ' I think it clear enough ; as much ground as one may have a chance to find a lizard upon . ' Commentators have differed as to the exact ...
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