Boswell's Life of Johnson, Količina 2H. Frowde, 1904 - 704 strani |
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... thing intel- lectual , every thing abstract - politicks , morals , and religion , must be darkly guessed . Dr. Johnson was of the same opinion . He upon another occasion , when a friend men- tioned to him several extraordinary facts ...
... thing intel- lectual , every thing abstract - politicks , morals , and religion , must be darkly guessed . Dr. Johnson was of the same opinion . He upon another occasion , when a friend men- tioned to him several extraordinary facts ...
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... thing more than a livelihood . To be sure a man , who has enough without teaching , will probably not teach ; for we would all be idle if we could . In the same manner , a man who is to get nothing by teaching , will not exert himself ...
... thing more than a livelihood . To be sure a man , who has enough without teaching , will probably not teach ; for we would all be idle if we could . In the same manner , a man who is to get nothing by teaching , will not exert himself ...
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James Boswell. 10 LIBELLING THE DEAD [ 1776 thing . It is as much almost as a man can make by his learning ; and therefore we find the most learned men abroad are in the Universities . It is not so with us . Our Universities are ...
James Boswell. 10 LIBELLING THE DEAD [ 1776 thing . It is as much almost as a man can make by his learning ; and therefore we find the most learned men abroad are in the Universities . It is not so with us . Our Universities are ...
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... thing to vanity ; his virtues , and his vices too , were from that motive . He was not a social man . He never exchanged mind with you . ' We spent the evening at Mr. Hoole's . Mr. Mickle , the excellent translator of The Lusiad , was ...
... thing to vanity ; his virtues , and his vices too , were from that motive . He was not a social man . He never exchanged mind with you . ' We spent the evening at Mr. Hoole's . Mr. Mickle , the excellent translator of The Lusiad , was ...
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... thing in a poetical light . His fault is such a cloud of words sometimes , that the sense can hardly peep through . Shiels , who compiled Cibber's Lives of the Poets1 , was one day sitting with me . I took down Thomson , and read aloud ...
... thing in a poetical light . His fault is such a cloud of words sometimes , that the sense can hardly peep through . Shiels , who compiled Cibber's Lives of the Poets1 , was one day sitting with me . I took down Thomson , and read aloud ...
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