The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.Talboys & Wheeler, 1826 |
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Page 128
... mind , and his tongue in his mind , and his right hand , we should not much lament the rest . I should not despair of helping the swelled hand by electricity , if it were fre- quently and diligently supplied . " Let me know from time to ...
... mind , and his tongue in his mind , and his right hand , we should not much lament the rest . I should not despair of helping the swelled hand by electricity , if it were fre- quently and diligently supplied . " Let me know from time to ...
Page 336
... mind from the uneasy reflection of delaying what he ought to do . While in the country , notwithstanding the accumulation of illness which he endured , his mind did not lose its powers . He translated an ode of Horace , which is printed ...
... mind from the uneasy reflection of delaying what he ought to do . While in the country , notwithstanding the accumulation of illness which he endured , his mind did not lose its powers . He translated an ode of Horace , which is printed ...
Page 389
... mind , the contradictory qualities will be the more prominent , and more difficult to be adjusted ; and therefore we are not to wonder that Johnson exhibited an eminent example of this remark which I have made upon human nature . At ...
... mind , the contradictory qualities will be the more prominent , and more difficult to be adjusted ; and therefore we are not to wonder that Johnson exhibited an eminent example of this remark which I have made upon human nature . At ...
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