Boswell's Life of Johnson, Količina 6Times Book Club, 1912 |
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... young or middle - aged man , when leaving a com- pany , does not recollect where he laid his hat , it is nothing ; but if the same inattention is discovered in an old man , people will shrug up their shoulders , and say , " his memory ...
... young or middle - aged man , when leaving a com- pany , does not recollect where he laid his hat , it is nothing ; but if the same inattention is discovered in an old man , people will shrug up their shoulders , and say , " his memory ...
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... young girl , struck by his extraordinary motions , said to him , ' Pray , Dr. Johnson , why do you make such strange gestures ? ' - From bad habit ( he replied ) . Do you , my dear , take care to guard against bad habits . ' This I was ...
... young girl , struck by his extraordinary motions , said to him , ' Pray , Dr. Johnson , why do you make such strange gestures ? ' - From bad habit ( he replied ) . Do you , my dear , take care to guard against bad habits . ' This I was ...
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... young gentleman of good family . ' Sir , when I heard of him last , he was running about town shooting cats . ' And then in a sort of kindly reverie , he bethought himself of his own favourite cat , and said , ' But Hodge shan't be shot ...
... young gentleman of good family . ' Sir , when I heard of him last , he was running about town shooting cats . ' And then in a sort of kindly reverie , he bethought himself of his own favourite cat , and said , ' But Hodge shan't be shot ...
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... costs you only forty shillings . Nay , you may graze the ground when the trees are grown up ; you cannot while they are young . ' BOSWELL : ' Is not a good garden 6 very common thing in England , sir ? ' ET . 74 ] LIFE OF DR . JOHNSON 41.
... costs you only forty shillings . Nay , you may graze the ground when the trees are grown up ; you cannot while they are young . ' BOSWELL : ' Is not a good garden 6 very common thing in England , sir ? ' ET . 74 ] LIFE OF DR . JOHNSON 41.
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... young Mr. Burke . He said , ' It is strange that there should be so little reading in the world and so much writing . People in general do not willingly read if they can have anything else to amuse them . There must be an external ...
... young Mr. Burke . He said , ' It is strange that there should be so little reading in the world and so much writing . People in general do not willingly read if they can have anything else to amuse them . There must be an external ...
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