Boswell's Life of Johnson, Količina 1Oxford University Press, H. Milford, 1924 - 1384 strani |
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... learning , was an excellent Biographer . His contributions to my Collection are highly estimable ; and as he had a true relish of my Tour to the Hebrides , I trust I should now have been gratified with a larger share of his kind ...
... learning , was an excellent Biographer . His contributions to my Collection are highly estimable ; and as he had a true relish of my Tour to the Hebrides , I trust I should now have been gratified with a larger share of his kind ...
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... learning , talents and accomplishments ; much of which praise I have under their hands to be reposited in my archives at Auchinleck . An honourable and reverend friend speaking of the favourable reception of my volumes , even in the ...
... learning , talents and accomplishments ; much of which praise I have under their hands to be reposited in my archives at Auchinleck . An honourable and reverend friend speaking of the favourable reception of my volumes , even in the ...
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... , and never had more than two children , both sons ; Samuel , their first born , who lived to be the illustrious character whose 1 Bacon's Advancement of Learning , Book I. 1709 ] HIS PARENTAGE 25 various excellence I am to.
... , and never had more than two children , both sons ; Samuel , their first born , who lived to be the illustrious character whose 1 Bacon's Advancement of Learning , Book I. 1709 ] HIS PARENTAGE 25 various excellence I am to.
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... learning will ever contemplate it with veneration . One day , while he was sitting in it quite alone , Dr. Panting , then master of the College , whom he called a fine Jacobite fellow , ' overheard him uttering this soliloquy in his ...
... learning will ever contemplate it with veneration . One day , while he was sitting in it quite alone , Dr. Panting , then master of the College , whom he called a fine Jacobite fellow , ' overheard him uttering this soliloquy in his ...
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... learning he revered , made him really ashamed of himself , " though I fear ( said he ) I was too proud to own it . " ' I have heard from some of his cotemporaries that he was generally seen lounging at the College gate , with a circle ...
... learning he revered , made him really ashamed of himself , " though I fear ( said he ) I was too proud to own it . " ' I have heard from some of his cotemporaries that he was generally seen lounging at the College gate , with a circle ...
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