The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.J. Murray, 1831 |
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... consider our friendship not only as formed by choice , but as matured by time . We have been now long enough ac- quainted to have many images in common , and therefore to have a source of conversation which neither the learning nor the ...
... consider our friendship not only as formed by choice , but as matured by time . We have been now long enough ac- quainted to have many images in common , and therefore to have a source of conversation which neither the learning nor the ...
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... consider debt only as an inconvenience ; you will find it a calamity . Poverty takes away so many means of doing good , and produces so much inability to resist evil , both natural and moral , that it is by all virtuous means to be ...
... consider debt only as an inconvenience ; you will find it a calamity . Poverty takes away so many means of doing good , and produces so much inability to resist evil , both natural and moral , that it is by all virtuous means to be ...
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... consider as more faulty than it is . A very importunate and oppressive disorder has for some time debarred me from the pleasures and ob- structed me in the duties of life . The esteem and kindness of wise and good men is one of the last ...
... consider as more faulty than it is . A very importunate and oppressive disorder has for some time debarred me from the pleasures and ob- structed me in the duties of life . The esteem and kindness of wise and good men is one of the last ...
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... consider as a fresh proof of your regard . a name . What will the world do but look on and laugh when one scholar dedicates to another ? 66 If I had been consulted about this Lexicon of Antiquities while it was yet only a design , I ...
... consider as a fresh proof of your regard . a name . What will the world do but look on and laugh when one scholar dedicates to another ? 66 If I had been consulted about this Lexicon of Antiquities while it was yet only a design , I ...
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... consider it as hard that their merit should not have its suitable distinction . Though there is no intentional injustice towards them on the part of the world , their merit not having been perceived , they may yet repine against fortune ...
... consider it as hard that their merit should not have its suitable distinction . Though there is no intentional injustice towards them on the part of the world , their merit not having been perceived , they may yet repine against fortune ...
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