Boswell's Life of Johnson, Količina 6A. Constable and Company, Limited, 1901 |
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... person should exert himself for a man who has written a good book : he has not written it for any individual . I may as well make a present to a postman who brings me a letter . When patronage was limited , an author expected to find a ...
... person should exert himself for a man who has written a good book : he has not written it for any individual . I may as well make a present to a postman who brings me a letter . When patronage was limited , an author expected to find a ...
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... 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 , and the enjoyments arising from it , for external ...
... 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 , and the enjoyments arising from it , for external ...
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... much curious information_re- specting persons and things which he will in vain seek for in other books of the same period . - M . ] how to retrench in some particulars less necessary than others ÆT . 74 ] LIFE OF DR . JOHNSON 15.
... much curious information_re- specting persons and things which he will in vain seek for in other books of the same period . - M . ] how to retrench in some particulars less necessary than others ÆT . 74 ] LIFE OF DR . JOHNSON 15.
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... person's in the kingdom , even beyond that of the Sovereign . I recollect only the enjoyment of hope , the high superiority of rank , without the anxious cares of government , and a great degree of power , both from natural influence ...
... person's in the kingdom , even beyond that of the Sovereign . I recollect only the enjoyment of hope , the high superiority of rank , without the anxious cares of government , and a great degree of power , both from natural influence ...
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... persons in distress was extraordi- nary : yet there lurked about him a propensity to paltry saving . One day I owned to him that ' I was occasionally troubled with a fit of narrowness . ' ' Why , sir ( said he ) , so am I. But I do not ...
... persons in distress was extraordi- nary : yet there lurked about him a propensity to paltry saving . One day I owned to him that ' I was occasionally troubled with a fit of narrowness . ' ' Why , sir ( said he ) , so am I. But I do not ...
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