Boswell's Life of JohnsonHumphrey Milford, Oxford University Press, 1922 |
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... knowledge of books and literary history ; but from the rigid formality of his manners , it is evident that they never could have lived together with companion- able ease and familiarity ; nor had Sir John Hawkins that nice perception ...
... knowledge of books and literary history ; but from the rigid formality of his manners , it is evident that they never could have lived together with companion- able ease and familiarity ; nor had Sir John Hawkins that nice perception ...
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... knowledge , to virtue and to truth 1 . ' 99 19 What I consider as the peculiar value of the following work , is , the quantity it contains of Johnson's conversa- tion ; which is universally acknowledged to have been eminently ...
... knowledge , to virtue and to truth 1 . ' 99 19 What I consider as the peculiar value of the following work , is , the quantity it contains of Johnson's conversa- tion ; which is universally acknowledged to have been eminently ...
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... knowledge , whether we intend to enlarge our science , or increase our virtue , are more important than publick occurrences . Thus Sallust , the great master of nature , has not forgot in his account of Catiline to remark , that his ...
... knowledge , whether we intend to enlarge our science , or increase our virtue , are more important than publick occurrences . Thus Sallust , the great master of nature , has not forgot in his account of Catiline to remark , that his ...
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... knowledge may be lost in imparting it , and how soon a succession of copies will lose all resemblance of the original ' . ' I am fully aware of the objections which may be made to the minuteness on some occasions of my detail of ...
... knowledge may be lost in imparting it , and how soon a succession of copies will lose all resemblance of the original ' . ' I am fully aware of the objections which may be made to the minuteness on some occasions of my detail of ...
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... knowledge . A boy should be introduced to such books , by having his attention directed to the arrangement , to the style , and other excellencies of composition ; that the mind being thus engaged by an amusing variety of objects , may ...
... knowledge . A boy should be introduced to such books , by having his attention directed to the arrangement , to the style , and other excellencies of composition ; that the mind being thus engaged by an amusing variety of objects , may ...
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