Boswell's Life of Johnson, Količina 2Times Book Club, 1912 |
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Stran 5
... excellent essays were written as hastily as an ordinary letter . Mr. Langton remembers Johnson , when on a visit at Oxford , ask- ing him one evening how long it was till the post went out ; and on being told about half an hour , he ex ...
... excellent essays were written as hastily as an ordinary letter . Mr. Langton remembers Johnson , when on a visit at Oxford , ask- ing him one evening how long it was till the post went out ; and on being told about half an hour , he ex ...
Stran 17
... excellent work , or even referring to them , because I should not know what to select , or rather what to omit . I shall , however , transcribe one , as it shows how well he could state the arguments of those who believe in the ...
... excellent work , or even referring to them , because I should not know what to select , or rather what to omit . I shall , however , transcribe one , as it shows how well he could state the arguments of those who believe in the ...
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... excellent mathematician , Mr. Thomas Simpson , did not preponderate in favour of the semicircular arch . But he should have known , that however eminent Mr. Simpson was in the higher parts of abstract mathematical science , he was ...
... excellent mathematician , Mr. Thomas Simpson , did not preponderate in favour of the semicircular arch . But he should have known , that however eminent Mr. Simpson was in the higher parts of abstract mathematical science , he was ...
Stran 55
... hospitable roof of her husband , who was to me a very kind friend . Her novel , entitled Memoirs of Miss Sydney Biddulph , con- tains an excellent moral while it inculcates a future 1 ET . 54 ] LIFE OF DR . JOHNSON 55.
... hospitable roof of her husband , who was to me a very kind friend . Her novel , entitled Memoirs of Miss Sydney Biddulph , con- tains an excellent moral while it inculcates a future 1 ET . 54 ] LIFE OF DR . JOHNSON 55.
Stran 56
... excellent national establishment . Had he not been nursed in nonconformity , he probably would not have been tainted with those heresies ( as I sincerely , and on no slight investiga- tion , think them ) both in religion and politics ...
... excellent national establishment . Had he not been nursed in nonconformity , he probably would not have been tainted with those heresies ( as I sincerely , and on no slight investiga- tion , think them ) both in religion and politics ...
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