Boswell's Life of Johnson: Together with Boswell's Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides and Johnson's Diary of a Journey Into North Wales, Količina 1Clarendon Press, 1934 - 557 strani |
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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 . ' JOHNSON . ' Why , Sir , that may be true in cases where learning cannot possibly be of any use ; for instance , this boy rows us as well without learning , as if he could sing the song of Orpheus to the Argonauts , who were ...
... learning . ' JOHNSON . ' Why , Sir , that may be true in cases where learning cannot possibly be of any use ; for instance , this boy rows us as well without learning , as if he could sing the song of Orpheus to the Argonauts , who were ...
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... learning ought to do from a principle of duty , when it is suited to their congregations ; a practice , for which they will be praised by men of sense 1 . To insist against drunkenness as a crime , because it debases Reason , the ...
... learning ought to do from a principle of duty , when it is suited to their congregations ; a practice , for which they will be praised by men of sense 1 . To insist against drunkenness as a crime , because it debases Reason , the ...
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VOLUME I | xxvii |
PREFACE | xxxi |
JOURNAL OF A TOUR TO THE HEBRIDES WITH SAMUEL JOHNSON LL D | 3 |
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