The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.P.F. Collier and Son, 1901 |
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... Conversation - Lies of Vanity - Opium - Exagger- ation - Neglect of Merit - Use of Riches - Crabbe's " Village " -Keeping Accounts - Lords Mansfield , Loughborough , and Thurlow - Harrington's Nugæ Antiquæ- " Quos Deus vult perdere ...
... Conversation - Lies of Vanity - Opium - Exagger- ation - Neglect of Merit - Use of Riches - Crabbe's " Village " -Keeping Accounts - Lords Mansfield , Loughborough , and Thurlow - Harrington's Nugæ Antiquæ- " Quos Deus vult perdere ...
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... conversation that had passed at an ale - house between us . My purpose is to continue our acquaintance . " ( Pr . and Med . p . 164. ) Mr. Ed- It was in Butcher - row that this meeting happened . wards , who was a decent - looking ...
... conversation that had passed at an ale - house between us . My purpose is to continue our acquaintance . " ( Pr . and Med . p . 164. ) Mr. Ed- It was in Butcher - row that this meeting happened . wards , who was a decent - looking ...
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... conversation as that between two fellow - collegians , who had lived forty years in London without ever having chanced to meet , I whispered to Mr. Edwards that Dr. Johnson was going home , and that he had better accompany him now . So ...
... conversation as that between two fellow - collegians , who had lived forty years in London without ever having chanced to meet , I whispered to Mr. Edwards that Dr. Johnson was going home , and that he had better accompany him now . So ...
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... conversation is with difficulty kept up , by a perpetual effort ? Johnson once observed to me , " Tom Tyers described me the best : ' Sir , ' said he , ' you are like a ghost : you never speak till you are spoken to . " The gentleman ...
... conversation is with difficulty kept up , by a perpetual effort ? Johnson once observed to me , " Tom Tyers described me the best : ' Sir , ' said he , ' you are like a ghost : you never speak till you are spoken to . " The gentleman ...
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... conversation . He abounded in anecdote , but was not sufficiently attentive to accuracy . I therefore cannot venture to avail myself much of a biographical sketch of Johnson which he published , being one among the various persons ...
... conversation . He abounded in anecdote , but was not sufficiently attentive to accuracy . I therefore cannot venture to avail myself much of a biographical sketch of Johnson which he published , being one among the various persons ...
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