The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.Talboys and Wheeler, 1826 |
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... favour of the benefit which a boy of good parts might receive at one of them , that I have reason to believe Mr. Murray was very much influenced by what he had heard to - day , in his determination to send his own son to Westminster ...
... favour of the benefit which a boy of good parts might receive at one of them , that I have reason to believe Mr. Murray was very much influenced by what he had heard to - day , in his determination to send his own son to Westminster ...
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... favour of it ? In my Letter to the people of Scotland , against diminishing the number of the Lords of Session , published in 1785 , there is the following passage , which , as a concise , and I hope a fair and rational state of the ...
... favour of it ? In my Letter to the people of Scotland , against diminishing the number of the Lords of Session , published in 1785 , there is the following passage , which , as a concise , and I hope a fair and rational state of the ...
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... favour of mo- derate drinking . JOHNSON . " Sir , I do not say it is wrong to produce self - complacency by drinking ; I only deny that it improves the mind . When I drank wine , I scorned to drink it when in company . I have drunk many ...
... favour of mo- derate drinking . JOHNSON . " Sir , I do not say it is wrong to produce self - complacency by drinking ; I only deny that it improves the mind . When I drank wine , I scorned to drink it when in company . I have drunk many ...
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... favour of its being in English , Johnson said , " The language of the country of which a learned man was a native , is not the language fit for his epitaph , which should be in ancient and permanent language . Consider , sir , how you ...
... favour of its being in English , Johnson said , " The language of the country of which a learned man was a native , is not the language fit for his epitaph , which should be in ancient and permanent language . Consider , sir , how you ...
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... favoured me some time ago . I imagined it to have been written without Mr. Boswell's knowledge , and therefore supposed the answer to require , what I could not find , a private con- veyance . " The difference with lord Auchinleck is ...
... favoured me some time ago . I imagined it to have been written without Mr. Boswell's knowledge , and therefore supposed the answer to require , what I could not find , a private con- veyance . " The difference with lord Auchinleck is ...
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