The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.Macmillan, 1900 |
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... manner as almost any of his very numerous acquaintance . Mr. Edwards had said to me aside , that Dr. Johnson should have been of a profession . I repeated the remark to Johnson that I might have his own thoughts on the subject . JOHNSON ...
... manner as almost any of his very numerous acquaintance . Mr. Edwards had said to me aside , that Dr. Johnson should have been of a profession . I repeated the remark to Johnson that I might have his own thoughts on the subject . JOHNSON ...
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... manner of Warburton , who must be allowed to have shewn uncommon ingenuity in giving to any author's text whatever meaning he chose it should carry . As this imitation may amuse my readers , I shall here introduce it : " No saying of DR ...
... manner of Warburton , who must be allowed to have shewn uncommon ingenuity in giving to any author's text whatever meaning he chose it should carry . As this imitation may amuse my readers , I shall here introduce it : " No saying of DR ...
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... manner of the moment , and answered her somewhat in the style of the hero of a romance , " Madam , you crown me with unfading laurels . " I happened , I know not how , to say that a . pamphlet meant a prose piece . JOHNSON : " No , Sir ...
... manner of the moment , and answered her somewhat in the style of the hero of a romance , " Madam , you crown me with unfading laurels . " I happened , I know not how , to say that a . pamphlet meant a prose piece . JOHNSON : " No , Sir ...
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... manner of absurdities . Croker . 2 See this question fully investigated in the notes upon my Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides , edit . 3 , p . 21 , et seq . And here , as a lawyer mindful of the maxĂm Suum cuique tribuito , I cannot ...
... manner of absurdities . Croker . 2 See this question fully investigated in the notes upon my Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides , edit . 3 , p . 21 , et seq . And here , as a lawyer mindful of the maxĂm Suum cuique tribuito , I cannot ...
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... manners are the most agreeable , and her conversation the best of any lady with whom I ever had the happiness to be acquainted . Before Johnson came we talked a good deal of him ; Ramsay said , he had always found him a very polite man ...
... manners are the most agreeable , and her conversation the best of any lady with whom I ever had the happiness to be acquainted . Before Johnson came we talked a good deal of him ; Ramsay said , he had always found him a very polite man ...
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