Boswell's Life of Johnson, Količina 1Times Book Club, 1912 |
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... honour to make himself but a pair of tables , to take the wise and pithy words of others , than to have every word of his own to be made an apophthegm or an oracle.'1 Having said thus much by way of introduction , I commit the following ...
... honour to make himself but a pair of tables , to take the wise and pithy words of others , than to have every word of his own to be made an apophthegm or an oracle.'1 Having said thus much by way of introduction , I commit the following ...
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... honour thee for this thy duty . ' That superiority over his fellows , which he main- tained with so much dignity in his march through life , was not assumed from vanity and ostentation , but was the natural and constant effect of those ...
... honour thee for this thy duty . ' That superiority over his fellows , which he main- tained with so much dignity in his march through life , was not assumed from vanity and ostentation , but was the natural and constant effect of those ...
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... honour to human nature . Talking to me once himself of his being much distinguished at school , he told me , ' they never thought to raise me by comparing me to any one ; they never said Johnson is as good a scholar as such a one ; but ...
... honour to human nature . Talking to me once himself of his being much distinguished at school , he told me , ' they never thought to raise me by comparing me to any one ; they never said Johnson is as good a scholar as such a one ; but ...
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... honour by me . I had brought enough with me to carry me through ; and all I should get at his school would be ascribed to my own labour , or to my former master . Yet he taught me a great deal . ' He thus discriminated to Dr. Percy ...
... honour by me . I had brought enough with me to carry me through ; and all I should get at his school would be ascribed to my own labour , or to my former master . Yet he taught me a great deal . ' He thus discriminated to Dr. Percy ...
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... honours of a lasting name , Intrusts his happiness to human kind , More false , more cruel , than the seas or wind . " Toil on , dull crowd , ' in ecstasies he cries , ' For wealth or title , perishable prize ; While I those transitory ...
... honours of a lasting name , Intrusts his happiness to human kind , More false , more cruel , than the seas or wind . " Toil on , dull crowd , ' in ecstasies he cries , ' For wealth or title , perishable prize ; While I those transitory ...
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