Boswell's Life of Johnson ...H. Frowde, 1904 |
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... talked of the dockers , as the inhabitants of the new town were called , as upstarts and aliens . Plymouth is very plentifully supplied with water by a river brought into it from a great distance , which is so abundant that it runs to ...
... talked of the dockers , as the inhabitants of the new town were called , as upstarts and aliens . Plymouth is very plentifully supplied with water by a river brought into it from a great distance , which is so abundant that it runs to ...
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... talked of belief in ghosts . He said , ' Sir , I make a distinction between what a man may experience by the mere strength of his imagination , and what imagination cannot possibly produce . Thus , suppose I should think that I saw a ...
... talked of belief in ghosts . He said , ' Sir , I make a distinction between what a man may experience by the mere strength of his imagination , and what imagination cannot possibly produce . Thus , suppose I should think that I saw a ...
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... talked very contemptuously of Churchill's poetry , observing , that ' it had a temporary currency , only from its audacity of abuse , and being filled with living names , and that it would sink into oblivion . ' I ventured to hint that ...
... talked very contemptuously of Churchill's poetry , observing , that ' it had a temporary currency , only from its audacity of abuse , and being filled with living names , and that it would sink into oblivion . ' I ventured to hint that ...
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... talked of the education of children ; and I asked him what he thought was best to teach them first . JOHNSON . ' Sir , it is no matter what you teach them first , any more than what leg you shall put into your breeches first . Sir , you ...
... talked of the education of children ; and I asked him what he thought was best to teach them first . JOHNSON . ' Sir , it is no matter what you teach them first , any more than what leg you shall put into your breeches first . Sir , you ...
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... talked of the wretched life of such women ; and agreed , that much more misery than happiness , upon the whole , is produced by illicit commerce between the sexes . On Saturday , July 30 , Dr. Johnson and I took a sculler at the Temple ...
... talked of the wretched life of such women ; and agreed , that much more misery than happiness , upon the whole , is produced by illicit commerce between the sexes . On Saturday , July 30 , Dr. Johnson and I took a sculler at the Temple ...
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