Boswell's Life of JohnsonOxford University Press, 1904 - 704 strani |
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... believe it , I have been undoubtedly informed , that many persons , especially in distant quarters , not penetrating enough into Johnson's character , so as to understand his mode of treating his friends , have arraigned my judgement ...
... believe it , I have been undoubtedly informed , that many persons , especially in distant quarters , not penetrating enough into Johnson's character , so as to understand his mode of treating his friends , have arraigned my judgement ...
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... believe , who have , or think they have , a very small share of vanity . Such may speak of their literary fame in a decorous style of diffidence . But I confess , that I am so formed by nature and by habit , that to restrain the ...
... believe , who have , or think they have , a very small share of vanity . Such may speak of their literary fame in a decorous style of diffidence . But I confess , that I am so formed by nature and by habit , that to restrain the ...
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... believe he studied hard . I never knew a man who studied hard . I conclude , in- deed , from the effects , that some men have studied hard , as Bentley and Clarke . ' Trying him by that criterion upon . which he formed his judgement of ...
... believe he studied hard . I never knew a man who studied hard . I conclude , in- deed , from the effects , that some men have studied hard , as Bentley and Clarke . ' Trying him by that criterion upon . which he formed his judgement of ...
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... believe I am going to write a long letter , and have therefore taken a whole sheet of paper . The first thing to be written about is our historical design . ' You mentioned the proposal of printing in numbers , as an alteration in the ...
... believe I am going to write a long letter , and have therefore taken a whole sheet of paper . The first thing to be written about is our historical design . ' You mentioned the proposal of printing in numbers , as an alteration in the ...
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... believe that the person who then assumed the name of Richard Savage was an impostor , being in reality the son of the shoemaker , under whose wife's care Lady Macclesfield's child was placed ; that after the death of the real Richard ...
... believe that the person who then assumed the name of Richard Savage was an impostor , being in reality the son of the shoemaker , under whose wife's care Lady Macclesfield's child was placed ; that after the death of the real Richard ...
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