The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.P.F. Collier and Son, 1901 |
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... remarks , so as to make very pleasant reading . " JOHNSON . " Why , Sir , most modern travellers in Europe who have published their travels have been laughed at : I would not have you added to the number . The world is now not contented ...
... remarks , so as to make very pleasant reading . " JOHNSON . " Why , Sir , most modern travellers in Europe who have published their travels have been laughed at : I would not have you added to the number . The world is now not contented ...
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... remarked that Fleet Street was the most cheerful scene in the world . " Fleet Street , " said I , " is in my mind more delightful than Tempé . " JOHNSON . " Ay , Sir , but let it be compared with Mull ! " There was a very numerous ...
... remarked that Fleet Street was the most cheerful scene in the world . " Fleet Street , " said I , " is in my mind more delightful than Tempé . " JOHNSON . " Ay , Sir , but let it be compared with Mull ! " There was a very numerous ...
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... remark to Johnson , that I might have his own thoughts on the subject . JOHNSON . " Sir , it would have been better that I had been of a profession . I ought to have been a lawyer . " BosWELL . " I do not think , Sir , it would have ...
... remark to Johnson , that I might have his own thoughts on the subject . JOHNSON . " Sir , it would have been better that I had been of a profession . I ought to have been a lawyer . " BosWELL . " I do not think , Sir , it would have ...
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... remarks on ploughing , sowing , and other farming operations . He seemed to be an absurd profane fel- low , and had introduced in his books many sneers at religion , with 1 This was Marshall's " Minutes of Agriculture . " The author ...
... remarks on ploughing , sowing , and other farming operations . He seemed to be an absurd profane fel- low , and had introduced in his books many sneers at religion , with 1 This was Marshall's " Minutes of Agriculture . " The author ...
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... . " If excess in drinking be meant , the remark is acutely just . But surely a moderate use of wine gives a gaiety of spirits which water - drinkers know not . readiness without wine , which wine gives . " BOSWELL 2 *
... . " If excess in drinking be meant , the remark is acutely just . But surely a moderate use of wine gives a gaiety of spirits which water - drinkers know not . readiness without wine , which wine gives . " BOSWELL 2 *
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