Boswell's Life of Johnson, Količina 4 |
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Stran 2
This fully refuted an anti - Mosaical remark introduced into Captain Brydone's entertaining tour , I hope heedlessly , from a kind of vanity which is too common in those who have not sufficiently studied the most important of all ...
This fully refuted an anti - Mosaical remark introduced into Captain Brydone's entertaining tour , I hope heedlessly , from a kind of vanity which is too common in those who have not sufficiently studied the most important of all ...
Stran 3
... independent of this observation , ' Shall all the accumulated evidence of the history of the world ; —shall the authority of what is unquestionably the most ancient writing , be overturned by an uncertain remark such as this ?
... independent of this observation , ' Shall all the accumulated evidence of the history of the world ; —shall the authority of what is unquestionably the most ancient writing , be overturned by an uncertain remark such as this ?
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This was a very just remark upon the different effects of those light pursuits which occupy a vacant and easy mind , and those serious engagements which arrest attention , and keep us from brooding over grief .
This was a very just remark upon the different effects of those light pursuits which occupy a vacant and easy mind , and those serious engagements which arrest attention , and keep us from brooding over grief .
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... Congreve , that he had given to Mr. Hector ; adding a remark of such moment to the rational conduct of a man in the decline of life , that deserves to be imprinted upon every mind : ' There is nothing against which an old man should ...
... Congreve , that he had given to Mr. Hector ; adding a remark of such moment to the rational conduct of a man in the decline of life , that deserves to be imprinted upon every mind : ' There is nothing against which an old man should ...
Stran 13
Macklin , I suppose , had not pressed upon his alleviation with so much eagerness as the gentleman who complained of him . Dr. Johnson's remark as to the jealousy entertained of our friends who rise far above us is certainly very just .
Macklin , I suppose , had not pressed upon his alleviation with so much eagerness as the gentleman who complained of him . Dr. Johnson's remark as to the jealousy entertained of our friends who rise far above us is certainly very just .
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