Mr. Oddity, Samuel Johnson, LL.D.Bell Publishing Company, 1951 - 348 pages |
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Page 88
... mind . With the Dictionary under way , Johnson began the second work on which a great part of his eighteenth century reputation was to rest . This was The Rambler . He was forty years old , his wife sixty - one and rapidly declining ...
... mind . With the Dictionary under way , Johnson began the second work on which a great part of his eighteenth century reputation was to rest . This was The Rambler . He was forty years old , his wife sixty - one and rapidly declining ...
Page 153
... mind , what they eat . For my part , I mind my belly very studiously , and very carefully ; for I look upon it , that he who does not mind his belly will hardly mind any- thing else . " The next day , at Harwich , they talked about ...
... mind , what they eat . For my part , I mind my belly very studiously , and very carefully ; for I look upon it , that he who does not mind his belly will hardly mind any- thing else . " The next day , at Harwich , they talked about ...
Page 200
... mind closed around the fatal theme . His joy in the talk was over . He began to roll and toss on his chair . Boswell . " May we not fortify our minds for the approach of death ? " Johnson . " No , Sir , let it alone . It matters not how ...
... mind closed around the fatal theme . His joy in the talk was over . He began to roll and toss on his chair . Boswell . " May we not fortify our minds for the approach of death ? " Johnson . " No , Sir , let it alone . It matters not how ...
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