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... and a few of our hero's foibles had been a little more shaded ; but it is useful to see the weaknesses incident to great minds ; and you have given us Dr. Johnson's authority that in history all ought to be told .
... and a few of our hero's foibles had been a little more shaded ; but it is useful to see the weaknesses incident to great minds ; and you have given us Dr. Johnson's authority that in history all ought to be told .
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Of the power of his memory , for which he was all his life eminent to a degree almost incredible , the following early instance was told me in his presence at Lichfield , in 1776 , by his step - daughter , Mrs. Lucy Porter , as related ...
Of the power of his memory , for which he was all his life eminent to a degree almost incredible , the following early instance was told me in his presence at Lichfield , in 1776 , by his step - daughter , Mrs. Lucy Porter , as related ...
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It is told " , that , when a child of three years old , he chanced to tread upon a duckling , the eleventh of a brood , and killed it ; upon which , it is said , he dictated to his mother the follow- ing epitaph : Here lies good master ...
It is told " , that , when a child of three years old , he chanced to tread upon a duckling , the eleventh of a brood , and killed it ; upon which , it is said , he dictated to his mother the follow- ing epitaph : Here lies good master ...
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When I found that he saw the romantick beauties of Islam , in Derbyshire , much better than I did , I told him that he resembled an able performer upon a bad instrument . How false and contemptible then are all the remarks which have ...
When I found that he saw the romantick beauties of Islam , in Derbyshire , much better than I did , I told him that he resembled an able performer upon a bad instrument . How false and contemptible then are all the remarks which have ...
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Dr. Swinfen told me that the scrofulous sores which afflicted me proceeded from the bad humours of the nurse , whose son had the same distem- per , and was likewise short - sighted , but both in a less degree .
Dr. Swinfen told me that the scrofulous sores which afflicted me proceeded from the bad humours of the nurse , whose son had the same distem- per , and was likewise short - sighted , but both in a less degree .
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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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