Boswell's Life of Johnson, Količina 4A. Constable and Company, 1896 |
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... late ; he was a scholar , and an agreeable man , and lived very prettily in London , till his wife died . After her death , he took to dissipation and gaming , and lost all he had . One evening he lost £ 1000 to a gentleman whose name I ...
... late ; he was a scholar , and an agreeable man , and lived very prettily in London , till his wife died . After her death , he took to dissipation and gaming , and lost all he had . One evening he lost £ 1000 to a gentleman whose name I ...
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... late Mr. Fitz- herbert of Derbyshire . ' There was ( said he ) no sparkle , no brilliancy in Fitzherbert ; but I never knew a man who was so generally acceptable . He made everybody quite easy , overpowered nobody by the superiority of ...
... late Mr. Fitz- herbert of Derbyshire . ' There was ( said he ) no sparkle , no brilliancy in Fitzherbert ; but I never knew a man who was so generally acceptable . He made everybody quite easy , overpowered nobody by the superiority of ...
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... late Reverend Mr. Brown of Utrecht's image ; that a great and small glass , though equally full , did not hold an equal quantity ; which he threw out to refute David Hume's saying , that a little miss , going to dance at a ball , in a ...
... late Reverend Mr. Brown of Utrecht's image ; that a great and small glass , though equally full , did not hold an equal quantity ; which he threw out to refute David Hume's saying , that a little miss , going to dance at a ball , in a ...
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