Boswell's Life of Johnson, Količina 4Times Book Club, 1912 |
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Stran 32
... instances in an age . There is a strange rout made about deep play : whereas you have many more people ruined by adventurous trade , and yet we do not hear such an outcry against it . ' THRALE : ' There may be few people absolutely ...
... instances in an age . There is a strange rout made about deep play : whereas you have many more people ruined by adventurous trade , and yet we do not hear such an outcry against it . ' THRALE : ' There may be few people absolutely ...
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... instances of ladies being ruined , by having injudiciously sunk their fortunes for high annuities , which , after a few years , ceased to be paid , in consequence of the ruined circumstances of the borrower . ' Mrs. Williams was very ...
... instances of ladies being ruined , by having injudiciously sunk their fortunes for high annuities , which , after a few years , ceased to be paid , in consequence of the ruined circumstances of the borrower . ' Mrs. Williams was very ...
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... instance of partiality . He mentioned what had passed upon the subject of the Monthly and Critical Reviews , in the conversation with which his Majesty had honoured him . He expatiated a little more on them this evening . he had ...
... instance of partiality . He mentioned what had passed upon the subject of the Monthly and Critical Reviews , in the conversation with which his Majesty had honoured him . He expatiated a little more on them this evening . he had ...
Stran 47
... instance , ambition is a noble passion ; but by seeing upon the stage that a man who is so excessively ambitious as to raise himself by injustice , is punished , we are terrified at the fatal consequences of such a passion . In the same ...
... instance , ambition is a noble passion ; but by seeing upon the stage that a man who is so excessively ambitious as to raise himself by injustice , is punished , we are terrified at the fatal consequences of such a passion . In the same ...
Stran 83
... instance , whether proprie is meant to signify in an appropriated manner , as Dr. Johnson here understands it , or , as it is often used by Cicero , with propriety , or elegantly . In short , it is a rare instance of a defect in ...
... instance , whether proprie is meant to signify in an appropriated manner , as Dr. Johnson here understands it , or , as it is often used by Cicero , with propriety , or elegantly . In short , it is a rare instance of a defect in ...
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