Boswell's Life of JohnsonScribner's Sons, 1917 - 574 strani |
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... learning . His curiosity having been thus excited , he sat down with avid- ity , and read a great part of the book . What he read dur- ing these two years he told me , was not works of mere amuse- ment , ' not voyages and travels , but ...
... learning . His curiosity having been thus excited , he sat down with avid- ity , and read a great part of the book . What he read dur- ing these two years he told me , was not works of mere amuse- ment , ' not voyages and travels , but ...
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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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... learning by regular gradations , as men of inferiour powers of mind . His own acquisitions had been made by fits and starts , by violent irruptions into the regions of knowledge ; and it could not be expected that his impatience would ...
... learning by regular gradations , as men of inferiour powers of mind . His own acquisitions had been made by fits and starts , by violent irruptions into the regions of knowledge ; and it could not be expected that his impatience would ...
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... learning and taste , as for his other eminent qualities ; and no man was more prompt , active , and generous , in encouraging merit . I have heard Johnson gratefully acknowledge , in his presence , the kind and effectual support which ...
... learning and taste , as for his other eminent qualities ; and no man was more prompt , active , and generous , in encouraging merit . I have heard Johnson gratefully acknowledge , in his presence , the kind and effectual support which ...
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