Boswell's Life of Johnson, Količina 2Times Book Club, 1912 |
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Stran 16
... Considering the large sums which have been received for compilations , and works requiring not much more genius than compilations , we cannot but wonder at the very low price which he was content to receive for this admirable ...
... Considering the large sums which have been received for compilations , and works requiring not much more genius than compilations , we cannot but wonder at the very low price which he was content to receive for this admirable ...
Stran 39
... consider propriety , or the op- portunity which the persons whom they solicit have to assist them , he wrote to her the following answer , with a copy of which I am favoured by the Reverend Dr. Farmer , Master of Emanuel College ...
... consider propriety , or the op- portunity which the persons whom they solicit have to assist them , he wrote to her the following answer , with a copy of which I am favoured by the Reverend Dr. Farmer , Master of Emanuel College ...
Stran 47
... considering it as a kind of duty to stand by it . He accordingly entered warmly into its interests , and upon every occasion talked of the dockers , as the inhabitants of the new town were called , as upstarts and aliens . Plymouth is ...
... considering it as a kind of duty to stand by it . He accordingly entered warmly into its interests , and upon every occasion talked of the dockers , as the inhabitants of the new town were called , as upstarts and aliens . Plymouth is ...
Stran 75
... consider themselves as under his patriarchal care , and who will follow him to the field upon an emergency . ' His notion of the dignity of a Scotch landlord had been formed upon what he had heard of the Highland Chiefs ; for it is long ...
... consider themselves as under his patriarchal care , and who will follow him to the field upon an emergency . ' His notion of the dignity of a Scotch landlord had been formed upon what he had heard of the Highland Chiefs ; for it is long ...
Stran 83
... consider that the shoals of Scotchmen who flocked about him might probably say , when anything of mine was well done , “ Ay , ay , he has learnt this of Cawmell ! " ' He talked very contemptuously of Churchill's poetry , observing that ...
... consider that the shoals of Scotchmen who flocked about him might probably say , when anything of mine was well done , “ Ay , ay , he has learnt this of Cawmell ! " ' He talked very contemptuously of Churchill's poetry , observing that ...
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