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The stretch of mind and prompt assiduity by which so many conversations were preserved , I myself , at some distance of time , contemplate with wonder ; and I must be allowed to suggest , that the nature of the work , in other respects ...
The stretch of mind and prompt assiduity by which so many conversations were preserved , I myself , at some distance of time , contemplate with wonder ; and I must be allowed to suggest , that the nature of the work , in other respects ...
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It seems to me , in my moments of self - complacency , that this extensive biographical work , however inferior in its nature , may in one respect be assimilated to the Odyssey . Amidst a thousand entertaining and instructive episodes ...
It seems to me , in my moments of self - complacency , that this extensive biographical work , however inferior in its nature , may in one respect be assimilated to the Odyssey . Amidst a thousand entertaining and instructive episodes ...
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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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... I have given upon a former occasion , have been re- ceived with so much approbation , that I have good grounds for supposing that the world will not be indifferent to more ample communications of a similar nature . d Rambler , No.
... I have given upon a former occasion , have been re- ceived with so much approbation , that I have good grounds for supposing that the world will not be indifferent to more ample communications of a similar nature . d Rambler , No.
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There are many invisible circumstances which , whe- ther we read as inquirers after natural or moral knowledge ... Thus Sallust , the great master of nature , has not forgot in his account of Catiline to remark , that his walk was now ...
There are many invisible circumstances which , whe- ther we read as inquirers after natural or moral knowledge ... Thus Sallust , the great master of nature , has not forgot in his account of Catiline to remark , that his walk was now ...
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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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