Boswell's Life of Johnson: Including Boswell's Journal of a Tour of the Hebrides, and Johnson's Diary of A Journey Into North Wales, Količina 1Bigelow, Brown & Company, 1799 |
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Stran xiii
... believe , missing a single line of the text or a single note . At length , ' tower- ing in the confidence'1 of one who as yet has but set his foot on the threshold of some stately mansion in which he hopes to find for himself a home , I ...
... believe , missing a single line of the text or a single note . At length , ' tower- ing in the confidence'1 of one who as yet has but set his foot on the threshold of some stately mansion in which he hopes to find for himself a home , I ...
Stran xvii
... believe , verified his quotations . I have not thought that it was my duty as an editor to attempt to refute or even to criticise Johnson's arguments . The story is told that when Peter the Great was on his travels and far from his ...
... believe , verified his quotations . I have not thought that it was my duty as an editor to attempt to refute or even to criticise Johnson's arguments . The story is told that when Peter the Great was on his travels and far from his ...
Stran xxi
... believe , quoted and misquoted the most frequently of all our writers . ' It is not every man that can carry a bon - mot . Bons - mots that are miscarried 1 Post , i . 343 , n . 3 . 2 Post , vi . 3 3 Post , ii . 401 . of xxii Preface ...
... believe , quoted and misquoted the most frequently of all our writers . ' It is not every man that can carry a bon - mot . Bons - mots that are miscarried 1 Post , i . 343 , n . 3 . 2 Post , vi . 3 3 Post , ii . 401 . of xxii Preface ...
Stran xxv
... believe , would have been pleased , per- haps would even have been proud , could he have foreseen this edition . Few distinctions he valued more highly than those which he received from his own great University . The honorary degrees ...
... believe , would have been pleased , per- haps would even have been proud , could he have foreseen this edition . Few distinctions he valued more highly than those which he received from his own great University . The honorary degrees ...
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... believe it , I have been undoubtedly informed , that many persons , especially in distant quarters , not penetrating enough into Johnson's character , so as to understand his mode of treating his friends , have arraigned my judgement ...
... believe it , I have been undoubtedly informed , that many persons , especially in distant quarters , not penetrating enough into Johnson's character , so as to understand his mode of treating his friends , have arraigned my judgement ...
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