Boswell's Life of Johnson, Together with Boswell's Journal of a Tour of the Hebride and Johnson's Diary of a Journey Into North Wales, Količina 1Clarendon Press, 1934 - 556 strani |
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... truth ' . ' What I consider as the peculiar value of the following work , is , the quantity that a it contains of Johnson's conversation ; which is universally acknowledged to have been eminently instructive and entertaining ; and of ...
... truth ' . ' What I consider as the peculiar value of the following work , is , the quantity that a it contains of Johnson's conversation ; which is universally acknowledged to have been eminently instructive and entertaining ; and of ...
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... truth of which I am to refute upon his own authority . It is told 1 , that , when a child of three years old , he chanced to tread upon a duckling , the eleventh of a brood , and killed it ; upon which , it is said , he dictated to his ...
... truth of which I am to refute upon his own authority . It is told 1 , that , when a child of three years old , he chanced to tread upon a duckling , the eleventh of a brood , and killed it ; upon which , it is said , he dictated to his ...
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... Truth will not afford suffi- cient food to their vanity ; so they have betaken themselves to errour . Truth , Sir , is a cow that will yi such people no more milk , and so they are gone to milk the bull . If I could have allowed myself ...
... Truth will not afford suffi- cient food to their vanity ; so they have betaken themselves to errour . Truth , Sir , is a cow that will yi such people no more milk , and so they are gone to milk the bull . If I could have allowed myself ...
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DR HILLS DEDICATION TO JOWETT | xxix |
TITLEPAGE OF THE THIRD EDITION | xlvii |
Advertisement to the Life | 23 |
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