Boswell's Life of Johnson, Količina 6Times Book Club, 1912 |
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Stran 12
... give it away ; for industry is more promoted by spending money than by giving it away . A man who spends his money is sure he is doing good with it : he is not sure when he gives it away . A man who spends ten thousand a year will do ...
... give it away ; for industry is more promoted by spending money than by giving it away . A man who spends his money is sure he is doing good with it : he is not sure when he gives it away . A man who spends ten thousand a year will do ...
Stran 13
... give the writer's meaning better than in the words of the manuscript.2 △ [ Malagrida was a Jesuit put to death in 1761 for being mixed up in an attempt upon the life of the King of Portugal . - A . B. ] I shall give an instance ...
... give the writer's meaning better than in the words of the manuscript.2 △ [ Malagrida was a Jesuit put to death in 1761 for being mixed up in an attempt upon the life of the King of Portugal . - A . B. ] I shall give an instance ...
Stran 21
... give it an agreeable variety ; for ( said he ) , there can now be nothing new among us : we have travelled over one another's minds . Johnson seemed a little angry , and said , ' Sir , you have not travelled over my mind , I promise you ...
... give it an agreeable variety ; for ( said he ) , there can now be nothing new among us : we have travelled over one another's minds . Johnson seemed a little angry , and said , ' Sir , you have not travelled over my mind , I promise you ...
Stran 29
... give up , though he had the wrong side , and , in short , both kept the field . Next morning when they met in the breakfast- room , Dr. Johnson accosted Mr. Morgann thus : ' Sir , I have been thinking on our dispute last night - You ...
... give up , though he had the wrong side , and , in short , both kept the field . Next morning when they met in the breakfast- room , Dr. Johnson accosted Mr. Morgann thus : ' Sir , I have been thinking on our dispute last night - You ...
Stran 31
... give to the world a just and elegant compliment thus paid to his Lordship by Johnson . CHARADE ' My first 2 shuts out thieves from your house or your room , ' My second expresses a Syrian perfume ; ' My whole is a man in whose converse ...
... give to the world a just and elegant compliment thus paid to his Lordship by Johnson . CHARADE ' My first 2 shuts out thieves from your house or your room , ' My second expresses a Syrian perfume ; ' My whole is a man in whose converse ...
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