The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D., Volume 1J.M. Dent and Sons Limited, 1925 |
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Page xxxi
... truth , I have still kept in my mind that the whole truth is not always to be exposed . This , however , I have managed so as to occasion no diminution of the pleasure which my book should afford ; though malignity may sometimes be ...
... truth , I have still kept in my mind that the whole truth is not always to be exposed . This , however , I have managed so as to occasion no diminution of the pleasure which my book should afford ; though malignity may sometimes be ...
Page xxxv
... truth , the progress of the present Work furnishes a striking instance . It was highly gratifying to me that my friend , Sir Joshua Reynolds , to whom it is inscribed , lived to perusė it , and to give the strongest testimony to its ...
... truth , the progress of the present Work furnishes a striking instance . It was highly gratifying to me that my friend , Sir Joshua Reynolds , to whom it is inscribed , lived to perusė it , and to give the strongest testimony to its ...
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... truth . " 1 6 What I consider as the peculiar value of the following work , is , the quantity it contains of Johnson's conversation ; which is uni- versally acknowledged to have been eminently instructive and entertaining ; and of which ...
... truth . " 1 6 What I consider as the peculiar value of the following work , is , the quantity it contains of Johnson's conversation ; which is uni- versally acknowledged to have been eminently instructive and entertaining ; and of which ...
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... truth , from a man so still and so tame , as to be con- tented to pass many years as the domestick companion of a super- annuated lord and lady , conversation could no more be expected , than from a Chinese mandarin on a chimney - piece ...
... truth , from a man so still and so tame , as to be con- tented to pass many years as the domestick companion of a super- annuated lord and lady , conversation could no more be expected , than from a Chinese mandarin on a chimney - piece ...
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... truth is , that the appellation of Gentleman , though now lost in the indiscriminate assumption of Esquire , was commonly taken by those who could not boast of gentility . His father was Michael Johnson , a native of Derbyshire , of ...
... truth is , that the appellation of Gentleman , though now lost in the indiscriminate assumption of Esquire , was commonly taken by those who could not boast of gentility . His father was Michael Johnson , a native of Derbyshire , of ...
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