The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.Heritage Press, 1963 |
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Page 241
... mind , and his tongue in his mind , and his right hand , we should not much lament the rest . I should not despair of helping the swelled hand by electricity , if it were frequently and diligently supplied . ' Let me know from time to ...
... mind , and his tongue in his mind , and his right hand , we should not much lament the rest . I should not despair of helping the swelled hand by electricity , if it were frequently and diligently supplied . ' Let me know from time to ...
Page 392
... mind , the other the nose of the mind . A young gentleman present took up the argument against him , and maintained that no man ever thinks of the nose of the mind , not adverting that though that figurative sense seems strange to us ...
... mind , the other the nose of the mind . A young gentleman present took up the argument against him , and maintained that no man ever thinks of the nose of the mind , not adverting that though that figurative sense seems strange to us ...
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... mind govern , and even supply the deficiency of organs , that his visual perceptions , as far as they ex- tended , were uncommonly quick and accurate . So morbid was his temperament , that he never knew the natural joy of a free and ...
... mind govern , and even supply the deficiency of organs , that his visual perceptions , as far as they ex- tended , were uncommonly quick and accurate . So morbid was his temperament , that he never knew the natural joy of a free and ...
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