Boswell's Life of JohnsonScribner's Sons, 1917 - 574 strani |
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Stran xii
... nature . Johnson called him ' clubbable , ' ' the best traveling companion in the world , ' ' one Scotchman who is cheerful , ' ' a man whom everybody likes , ' ' a man who I believe never left a house without leaving a wish for his ...
... nature . Johnson called him ' clubbable , ' ' the best traveling companion in the world , ' ' one Scotchman who is cheerful , ' ' a man whom everybody likes , ' ' a man who I believe never left a house without leaving a wish for his ...
Stran xiii
... nature that loved men and was ever hungry for knowledge of them . ' Sir , ' said he , ' I look upon every day lost in which I do not make a new acquaintance . ' And again : ' Why , Sir , I am a man of the world . I live in the world ...
... nature that loved men and was ever hungry for knowledge of them . ' Sir , ' said he , ' I look upon every day lost in which I do not make a new acquaintance . ' And again : ' Why , Sir , I am a man of the world . I live in the world ...
Stran xvii
... nature . Boswell's Johnson is consistently and primarily the life of one man . Incidentally it is more , for through it one is carried from his own present limitations into a spacious and genial world . The reader there meets a vast ...
... nature . Boswell's Johnson is consistently and primarily the life of one man . Incidentally it is more , for through it one is carried from his own present limitations into a spacious and genial world . The reader there meets a vast ...
Stran 4
... nature of which eludes the most minute enquiry , though the effects are well known to be a weariness of life , an unconcern about those things which agitate the greater part of mankind , and a general sensation of gloomy wretchedness ...
... nature of which eludes the most minute enquiry , though the effects are well known to be a weariness of life , an unconcern about those things which agitate the greater part of mankind , and a general sensation of gloomy wretchedness ...
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... nature or of art , with a nicety that is rarely to be found . When he and I were travelling in the Highlands of Scotland , and I pointed out to him a mountain which I observed resembled a cone , he corrected my inaccuracy , by shewing ...
... nature or of art , with a nicety that is rarely to be found . When he and I were travelling in the Highlands of Scotland , and I pointed out to him a mountain which I observed resembled a cone , he corrected my inaccuracy , by shewing ...
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