Boswell's Life of Johnson ...H. Frowde, 1904 |
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... natural or moral 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 ...
... natural or moral 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 ...
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... nature of which eludes the most minute enquiry , though the effects are well known to be a weariness of life , an unconcern about those things which agitate the greater part of mankind , and a general sensation of gloomy wretchedness ...
... nature of which eludes the most minute enquiry , though the effects are well known to be a weariness of life , an unconcern about those things which agitate the greater part of mankind , and a general sensation of gloomy wretchedness ...
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... nature or of art , with a nicety that is rarely to be found . When he and I were travelling in the Highlands of Scotland , and I pointed out to him a mountain which I observed resembled a cone , he corrected my inaccuracy , by shewing ...
... nature or of art , with a nicety that is rarely to be found . When he and I were travelling in the Highlands of Scotland , and I pointed out to him a mountain which I observed resembled a cone , he corrected my inaccuracy , by shewing ...
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... nature , was at the same time visited with a disorder so afflictive , that they who know it by dire experience , will not envy his exalted endowments . That it was , in some degree , occa- sioned by a defect in his nervous system , that ...
... nature , was at the same time visited with a disorder so afflictive , that they who know it by dire experience , will not envy his exalted endowments . That it was , in some degree , occa- sioned by a defect in his nervous system , that ...
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... nature , and an exception to the rest of thy sex , and art immortal ; for sentiments like thine were never to sink into nothing . I thought all the thoughts of the fair had been to select the graces of the day , dispose the colours of ...
... nature , and an exception to the rest of thy sex , and art immortal ; for sentiments like thine were never to sink into nothing . I thought all the thoughts of the fair had been to select the graces of the day , dispose the colours of ...
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BOSWELLS LIFE OF JOHNSON, Količina 3 James 1740-1795 Boswell,George Birkbeck Norman 1835-1903 Hill Predogled ni na voljo - 2016 |
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