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What reason I had to hope for the countenance of that venerable gentleman to this work , will appear from what he wrote to me upon a former occasion from Oxford , November 17 , 1785 " Dear sir , I hazard this letter , not knowing where ...
What reason I had to hope for the countenance of that venerable gentleman to this work , will appear from what he wrote to me upon a former occasion from Oxford , November 17 , 1785 " Dear sir , I hazard this letter , not knowing where ...
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There are , indeed , some natural reasons why these nar- ratives are often written by such as were not likely to give much instruction or delight , and why most accounts of par- ticular persons are barren and useless .
There are , indeed , some natural reasons why these nar- ratives are often written by such as were not likely to give much instruction or delight , and why most accounts of par- ticular persons are barren and useless .
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... by a diligent ob- server , there is no reason to doubt . For there is no in stance of any man , whose history has been minutely re- lated , that did not in every part of life discover the same proportion of intellectual vigour .
... by a diligent ob- server , there is no reason to doubt . For there is no in stance of any man , whose history has been minutely re- lated , that did not in every part of life discover the same proportion of intellectual vigour .
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Men of deranged intellects will reason , on every subject that is not connected with the immediate seat of their disorder , with a luminous acuteness that casts the mental powers of other men into shade . See Lord Erskine's speech on ...
Men of deranged intellects will reason , on every subject that is not connected with the immediate seat of their disorder , with a luminous acuteness that casts the mental powers of other men into shade . See Lord Erskine's speech on ...
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To Johnson , whose supreme enjoyment was the exercise of his reason , the disturbance or obscuration of that faculty was the evil most to be dreaded . Insanity , therefore , was the object of his most dismal apprehension ; and he ...
To Johnson , whose supreme enjoyment was the exercise of his reason , the disturbance or obscuration of that faculty was the evil most to be dreaded . Insanity , therefore , was the object of his most dismal apprehension ; and he ...
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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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