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But I confess , that I am so formed by nature and by habit , that to restrain the effusion of delight , on having obtained such fame , to me would be truly painful . Why then - should I suppress it ? Why " out of the abundance of the ...
But I confess , that I am so formed by nature and by habit , that to restrain the effusion of delight , on having obtained such fame , to me would be truly painful . Why then - should I suppress it ? Why " out of the abundance of the ...
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Young Johnson had the misfortune to be much afflicted with the scrofula , or kingsevil , which disfigured a coun- tenance naturally well formed , and hurt his visual nerves so much , that he did not see at all with one of his eyes ...
Young Johnson had the misfortune to be much afflicted with the scrofula , or kingsevil , which disfigured a coun- tenance naturally well formed , and hurt his visual nerves so much , that he did not see at all with one of his eyes ...
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Trying him by that criterion upon which he formed his judgment of others , we may be absolutely certain , both from his writings and his conver- sation , that his reading was very extensive . Dr. Adam Smith , than whom few were better ...
Trying him by that criterion upon which he formed his judgment of others , we may be absolutely certain , both from his writings and his conver- sation , that his reading was very extensive . Dr. Adam Smith , than whom few were better ...
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Bishop Percy has often heard him , he states , humming and forming periods , in low whispers to himself , when shallow ob- servers thought he was muttering prayers . His own practice was , perhaps , alluded to by Johnson , in the ...
Bishop Percy has often heard him , he states , humming and forming periods , in low whispers to himself , when shallow ob- servers thought he was muttering prayers . His own practice was , perhaps , alluded to by Johnson , in the ...
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I have also in my possession a few leaves of another ' libellus , ' or little book , entitled Annales , ' in which some of the early par- ticulars of his history are registered in Latin . 6 I do not find that he formed any close ...
I have also in my possession a few leaves of another ' libellus , ' or little book , entitled Annales , ' in which some of the early par- ticulars of his history are registered in Latin . 6 I do not find that he formed any close ...
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| Title | The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. Oxford English classics Volume 1 of The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D, James Boswell |
| Author | James Boswell |
| Publisher | Talboys & Wheeler, 1826 |
| Original from | Lyon Public Library |
| Digitized | 20 Sep 2010 |
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