Boswell's Life of Johnson, Količina 6A. Constable and Company, Limited, 1901 |
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... strange gestures ? ' - ' From bad habit ( he replied ) . Do you , my dear , take care to guard against bad habits . ' This I was told by the young lady's brother at Margate . with whom we are accustomed to live , yet this ET . 74 ] LIFE ...
... strange gestures ? ' - ' From bad habit ( he replied ) . Do you , my dear , take care to guard against bad habits . ' This I was told by the young lady's brother at Margate . with whom we are accustomed to live , yet this ET . 74 ] LIFE ...
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... strange that there should be so little reading in the world and so much writing . People in general do not willingly read if they can have anything else to amuse them . There must be an external impulse ; emulation , or vanity , or ...
... strange that there should be so little reading in the world and so much writing . People in general do not willingly read if they can have anything else to amuse them . There must be an external impulse ; emulation , or vanity , or ...
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... , and I think repeated it ; but all was vain . I then went to bed , and , strange as it may seem , I think slept . When I saw light , it was time to contrive what I should do . Though God stopped my speech 64 [ 1783 LIFE OF DR . JOHNSON.
... , and I think repeated it ; but all was vain . I then went to bed , and , strange as it may seem , I think slept . When I saw light , it was time to contrive what I should do . Though God stopped my speech 64 [ 1783 LIFE OF DR . JOHNSON.
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... strange , and desires to see the fine clothes , but finds nobody in forty thousand men that can produce either coat or waistcoat . One , indeed , has left them in his chest at Port Mahon ; another has always heard that he ought to have ...
... strange , and desires to see the fine clothes , but finds nobody in forty thousand men that can produce either coat or waistcoat . One , indeed , has left them in his chest at Port Mahon ; another has always heard that he ought to have ...
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... strange in a strange place . ' He was truly social . He strongly censured what is much too common in England among persons of condition , -maintaining an absolute silence , when unknown to each other ; as , for instance , when ...
... strange in a strange place . ' He was truly social . He strongly censured what is much too common in England among persons of condition , -maintaining an absolute silence , when unknown to each other ; as , for instance , when ...
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