Boswell's Life of Johnson, Količina 6Times Book Club, 1912 |
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Stran 16
... believe one half of what he tells . ' JOHNSON : ' Ay ; but we don't know which half to believe . By his lying we lose not only our reverence for him , but all comfort in his conversation . ' BOSWELL : ' May we not take it as amusing ...
... believe one half of what he tells . ' JOHNSON : ' Ay ; but we don't know which half to believe . By his lying we lose not only our reverence for him , but all comfort in his conversation . ' BOSWELL : ' May we not take it as amusing ...
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... years ago , in a note on The Rape o Lucrece : ' Solamen miseris socios habuisse doloris . ' But the author of this verse has not , I believe , been discovered . - M . ] ' Sir , a man might write such stuff for 20 [ 1783 LIFE OF DR .
... years ago , in a note on The Rape o Lucrece : ' Solamen miseris socios habuisse doloris . ' But the author of this verse has not , I believe , been discovered . - M . ] ' Sir , a man might write such stuff for 20 [ 1783 LIFE OF DR .
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... believe in all his voluminous writings , not half a dozen of them will be found . He never used the phrases the former and the latter , hav- ing observed that they often occasioned obscurity ; he therefore contrived to construct his ...
... believe in all his voluminous writings , not half a dozen of them will be found . He never used the phrases the former and the latter , hav- ing observed that they often occasioned obscurity ; he therefore contrived to construct his ...
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... believe faction would have been crushed ; but it might have been said , that it was a sanguinary reign . A man cannot tell à priori what will be best for Government to do . This reign has been very un- fortunate . We have had an ...
... believe faction would have been crushed ; but it might have been said , that it was a sanguinary reign . A man cannot tell à priori what will be best for Government to do . This reign has been very un- fortunate . We have had an ...
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... believe they make a higher thing out of them than a spirit ; they make 1 1 It is suggested to me by an anonymous annotator on my work , that the reason why Dr. Johnson collected the peels of squeezed oranges , may be found in the 358th ...
... believe they make a higher thing out of them than a spirit ; they make 1 1 It is suggested to me by an anonymous annotator on my work , that the reason why Dr. Johnson collected the peels of squeezed oranges , may be found in the 358th ...
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