Boswell's Life of Johnson, Količina 6A. Constable and Company, Limited, 1901 |
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... common inquiries he assumed his usual strong animated style of conversa- tion . Seeing me now for the first time as a Laird , or proprietor of land , he began thus : Sir , the superiority of a country gentleman over the people upon his ...
... common inquiries he assumed his usual strong animated style of conversa- tion . Seeing me now for the first time as a Laird , or proprietor of land , he began thus : Sir , the superiority of a country gentleman over the people upon his ...
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... common conversation in all companies was such as to secure him universal attention , as something above the usual colloquial style was expected . Yet , though Johnson had this habit in company , when another mode was necessary , in ...
... common conversation in all companies was such as to secure him universal attention , as something above the usual colloquial style was expected . Yet , though Johnson had this habit in company , when another mode was necessary , in ...
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... common friend , Mr. Windham , of Norfolk , has been pleased to furnish me with an eminent instance . However unfavourable to Scotland , he uniformly gave liberal praise to George Buchanan as a writer . In a conver- sation concerning the ...
... common friend , Mr. Windham , of Norfolk , has been pleased to furnish me with an eminent instance . However unfavourable to Scotland , he uniformly gave liberal praise to George Buchanan as a writer . In a conver- sation concerning the ...
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... common than to mistake surnames when we hear them carelessly uttered for the first time . To prevent this he used not only to pronounce them slowly and distinctly , but to take the trouble of spell- ing them — a practice which I have ...
... common than to mistake surnames when we hear them carelessly uttered for the first time . To prevent this he used not only to pronounce them slowly and distinctly , but to take the trouble of spell- ing them — a practice which I have ...
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... common among Englishmen towards strangers : Sir ( said he ) , two men of any other nation who are shown into a room ... common rights of humanity . ' Johnson was at a certain period of his life a good deal with the Earl of Shelburne ...
... common among Englishmen towards strangers : Sir ( said he ) , two men of any other nation who are shown into a room ... common rights of humanity . ' Johnson was at a certain period of his life a good deal with the Earl of Shelburne ...
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