The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.Macmillan, 1900 |
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... learning , various knowledge , and discernment of character . This much This much may I be allowed to say of a man who was exceedingly obliging to me , and who lived with Dr. Johnson in as easy a manner as almost any of his very ...
... learning , various knowledge , and discernment of character . This much This much may I be allowed to say of a man who was exceedingly obliging to me , and who lived with Dr. Johnson in as easy a manner as almost any of his very ...
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... learning in their language than in any other , from the immense number of their characters . JOHNSON " It is only more difficult from its rudeness ; as there is more labour in hewing down a tree with a stone than with an axe . ' He said ...
... learning in their language than in any other , from the immense number of their characters . JOHNSON " It is only more difficult from its rudeness ; as there is more labour in hewing down a tree with a stone than with an axe . ' He said ...
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... learning to be better satisfied with my own country . Time may be employed to more advantage from nineteen to twenty - four almost in any way than in travelling ; when you set travelling against mere negation , against doing nothing ...
... learning to be better satisfied with my own country . Time may be employed to more advantage from nineteen to twenty - four almost in any way than in travelling ; when you set travelling against mere negation , against doing nothing ...
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... learning and virtue as you love them . " I have been flattering myself all the summer with the hope of paying my annual visit to my friends ; but something has obstructed me . I still hope not to be long without seeing you . I should be ...
... learning and virtue as you love them . " I have been flattering myself all the summer with the hope of paying my annual visit to my friends ; but something has obstructed me . I still hope not to be long without seeing you . I should be ...
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... learning , when I have been in your company . No man loves to be treated with contempt . ' BEAUCLERK ( with a polite inclination towards Johnson ) : " Sir , you have known me twenty years , and however I may have treated others , you ...
... learning , when I have been in your company . No man loves to be treated with contempt . ' BEAUCLERK ( with a polite inclination towards Johnson ) : " Sir , you have known me twenty years , and however I may have treated others , you ...
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