Boswell's Life of Johnson, Količina 6A. Constable and Company, Limited, 1901 |
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Stran 11
... consider thus - How much harder would it be if the same persons had both all the merit and all the prosperity . Would not this be a miserable distribution for the poor dunces ? Would men of merit exchange their intellectual superiority ...
... consider thus - How much harder would it be if the same persons had both all the merit and all the prosperity . Would not this be a miserable distribution for the poor dunces ? Would men of merit exchange their intellectual superiority ...
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... consider as important , goes on in hope of information : and as there is nothing to fatigue attention , if he is disappointed , he can hardly complain . It may be added , that the reader not only hopes to find , but does find , in this ...
... consider as important , goes on in hope of information : and as there is nothing to fatigue attention , if he is disappointed , he can hardly complain . It may be added , that the reader not only hopes to find , but does find , in this ...
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... consider it as a compliment to be talked to , as if they were wiser than they are . So true is this , sir , that Baxter made it a rule in every sermon that he preached , to say something that was above the capacity of his audience ...
... consider it as a compliment to be talked to , as if they were wiser than they are . So true is this , sir , that Baxter made it a rule in every sermon that he preached , to say something that was above the capacity of his audience ...
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... into admiration . ' I am far from desiring to be numbered among the exaggerators of Chinese excellence . I consider them as great , or wise , only in compari He said to Sir William Scott , ' The age ET . 74 ] LIFE OF DR . JOHNSON 25.
... into admiration . ' I am far from desiring to be numbered among the exaggerators of Chinese excellence . I consider them as great , or wise , only in compari He said to Sir William Scott , ' The age ET . 74 ] LIFE OF DR . JOHNSON 25.
Stran 37
... considers himself as cut off from all credit and all hope , by the rejection of his picture from the Exhibi- tion . Upon this work he has exhausted all his powers , and suspended all his expectations ; and , certainly , to be refused an ...
... considers himself as cut off from all credit and all hope , by the rejection of his picture from the Exhibi- tion . Upon this work he has exhausted all his powers , and suspended all his expectations ; and , certainly , to be refused an ...
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