Boswell's Life of JohnsonHumphrey Milford, Oxford University Press, 1922 |
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... seen in this work more completely than any man who has ever yet lived . And he will be seen as he really was ; for I profess to write , not his panegyrick , which must be all praise , but his Life ; which , great and good as he was ...
... seen in this work more completely than any man who has ever yet lived . And he will be seen as he really was ; for I profess to write , not his panegyrick , which must be all praise , but his Life ; which , great and good as he was ...
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... seen mentioned in some preface , as one of the restorers of learn- ing . His curiosity having been thus excited , he sat down with avidity , and read a great part of the book . What he read during these two years he told me , was not ...
... seen mentioned in some preface , as one of the restorers of learn- ing . His curiosity having been thus excited , he sat down with avidity , and read a great part of the book . What he read during these two years he told me , was not ...
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... seen [ I suppose at five years old ] in his father's shop , intitled De veritate Religionis , etc. , he began to think himself highly culpable for neglecting such a means of information , and took himself severely to task for this sin ...
... seen [ I suppose at five years old ] in his father's shop , intitled De veritate Religionis , etc. , he began to think himself highly culpable for neglecting such a means of information , and took himself severely to task for this sin ...
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... seen lounging at the College gate , with a circle of young students round him , whom he was enter- taining with wit , and keeping from their studies , if not spiriting them up to rebellion against the College discipline , which in his ...
... seen lounging at the College gate , with a circle of young students round him , whom he was enter- taining with wit , and keeping from their studies , if not spiriting them up to rebellion against the College discipline , which in his ...
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... seen but a small part of the wonders of the Metropolis , he had little to tell his townsmen . He related to me the following minute anecdote of this period : ' In the last age , when my mother lived in London , there were two sets of ...
... seen but a small part of the wonders of the Metropolis , he had little to tell his townsmen . He related to me the following minute anecdote of this period : ' In the last age , when my mother lived in London , there were two sets of ...
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