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Page viii
I have , there- fore , in this work been more reserved ; and though I tell nothing but the truth , I have still kept in my mind that the whole truth is not always to be exposed . This , how- ever , I have managed so as to occasion no ...
I have , there- fore , in this work been more reserved ; and though I tell nothing but the truth , I have still kept in my mind that the whole truth is not always to be exposed . This , how- ever , I have managed so as to occasion no ...
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In the strangely mixed scenes of human existence , our feelings are often at once pleasing and painful . Of this truth , the progress of the present work furnishes a striking instance . It was highly gratifying to me that ...
In the strangely mixed scenes of human existence , our feelings are often at once pleasing and painful . Of this truth , the progress of the present work furnishes a striking instance . It was highly gratifying to me that ...
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I do not think it was quite necessary to attempt a depreciation of what is universally esteemed , because it was not to be found in the immediate object of the inge- nious writer's pen ; for in truth , from a man so still and so tame ...
I do not think it was quite necessary to attempt a depreciation of what is universally esteemed , because it was not to be found in the immediate object of the inge- nious writer's pen ; for in truth , from a man so still and so tame ...
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... panegyrist has praised him for not being proud ; when the truth is , that the appellation of gentleman , though now lost in the indiscriminate assump- tion of esquire , was commonly taken by those who could not boast of gentility .
... panegyrist has praised him for not being proud ; when the truth is , that the appellation of gentleman , though now lost in the indiscriminate assump- tion of esquire , was commonly taken by those who could not boast of gentility .
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My mother concluded that we were poor , because we lost by some of our trades ; but the truth was , that my father , having in the early part of his life contracted debts , never had trade sufficient to enable him to pay ...
My mother concluded that we were poor , because we lost by some of our trades ; but the truth was , that my father , having in the early part of his life contracted debts , never had trade sufficient to enable him to pay ...
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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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