Boswell's Life of Johnson, Količina 6Times Book Club, 1912 |
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... things in such views as they are not com- monly seen in ; —and in the fourth place , there must be presence of mind , and a resolution that it is not to be overcome by failures ; this last is an essential requisite ; for want of it many ...
... things in such views as they are not com- monly seen in ; —and in the fourth place , there must be presence of mind , and a resolution that it is not to be overcome by failures ; this last is an essential requisite ; for want of it many ...
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... things are exaggerated . A gentleman was lately telling in a company where I was present , that in France as soon as a man of fashion marries he takes an opera girl into keeping ; and this he mentioned as a general custom . " Pray , sir ...
... things are exaggerated . A gentleman was lately telling in a company where I was present , that in France as soon as a man of fashion marries he takes an opera girl into keeping ; and this he mentioned as a general custom . " Pray , sir ...
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... things all as bad as they can be . ' Having mentioned his friend , the second Lord Southwell , he said , ' Lord Southwell was the highest bred man without insolence that I ever was in company with ; the most qualitied I ever saw . Lord ...
... things all as bad as they can be . ' Having mentioned his friend , the second Lord Southwell , he said , ' Lord Southwell was the highest bred man without insolence that I ever was in company with ; the most qualitied I ever saw . Lord ...
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... thing for human nature . ' ' It is a very good custom to keep a journal for a man's own use ; he may write upon a card a day all that is necessary to be written , after he has had ex- perience of life . At first there is a great deal to ...
... thing for human nature . ' ' It is a very good custom to keep a journal for a man's own use ; he may write upon a card a day all that is necessary to be written , after he has had ex- perience of life . At first there is a great deal to ...
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... much curious information_re- specting persons and things which he will in vain seek for in other books of the same period . - M . ] how to retrench in some particulars less necessary than others ET . 74 ] LIFE OF DR . JOHNSON 16.
... much curious information_re- specting persons and things which he will in vain seek for in other books of the same period . - M . ] how to retrench in some particulars less necessary than others ET . 74 ] LIFE OF DR . JOHNSON 16.
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