Boswell's Life of Johnson: Including Boswell's Journal of a Tour of the Hebrides, and Johnson's Diary of A Journey Into North Wales, Količina 1Bigelow, Brown & Company, Incorporated, 1799 |
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... truth and accuracy as they were patient in their pursuit , I was strength- ened in my hatred of carelessness and error . With all these interruptions the summer of 1885 was upon me before I was ready for the compositors to make a begin ...
... truth and accuracy as they were patient in their pursuit , I was strength- ened in my hatred of carelessness and error . With all these interruptions the summer of 1885 was upon me before I was ready for the compositors to make a begin ...
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... truth , I have still kept in my mind that the whole truth is not al- ways to be exposed . This , however , I have managed so as to occasion no diminution of the pleasure which my book should afford ; though malignity may sometimes be ...
... truth , I have still kept in my mind that the whole truth is not al- ways to be exposed . This , however , I have managed so as to occasion no diminution of the pleasure which my book should afford ; though malignity may sometimes be ...
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... truth of it , and I can't tell what he will do . He is so extraordinary a man that perhaps he will devise something extraor dinary . ' Mme . D'Arblay's Diary , ii . 400. ' Dr. Johnson's history , ' wrote Horace Walpole , on June 20 ...
... truth of it , and I can't tell what he will do . He is so extraordinary a man that perhaps he will devise something extraor dinary . ' Mme . D'Arblay's Diary , ii . 400. ' Dr. Johnson's history , ' wrote Horace Walpole , on June 20 ...
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... truth from himself , and how far from Johnson's training . He was one of Johnson's school . He himself quotes Reynolds's observation , ' that all who were of his school are distinguished for a love of truth and ac- curacy , which they ...
... truth from himself , and how far from Johnson's training . He was one of Johnson's school . He himself quotes Reynolds's observation , ' that all who were of his school are distinguished for a love of truth and ac- curacy , which they ...
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... truth , the progress of the present Work furnishes a striking instance . It was highly gratifying to me that my friend , Sir Joshua ' ' Burke affirmed that Boswell's Life was a greater monument to Johnson's fame than all his writings ...
... truth , the progress of the present Work furnishes a striking instance . It was highly gratifying to me that my friend , Sir Joshua ' ' Burke affirmed that Boswell's Life was a greater monument to Johnson's fame than all his writings ...
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