The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.Macmillan, 1900 |
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... mind , and imbecility in the common occurrences of life , which we may observe in some people . JOHNSON : " Why , Sir , I am in the habit of getting others to do things for me . " Boswell : What , Sir ! have you that weakness ...
... mind , and imbecility in the common occurrences of life , which we may observe in some people . JOHNSON : " Why , Sir , I am in the habit of getting others to do things for me . " Boswell : What , Sir ! have you that weakness ...
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... mind before he left London . JOHNSON : " Why yes , Sir , the topics were ; and books of travels will be good in proportion to what a man has previously in his mind ; his knowing what to observe ; his power of contrasting 1 I believe ...
... mind before he left London . JOHNSON : " Why yes , Sir , the topics were ; and books of travels will be good in proportion to what a man has previously in his mind ; his knowing what to observe ; his power of contrasting 1 I believe ...
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... mind more delightful than Tempé . " JOHNSON : " Ay , Sir ; but let it be compared with Mull . " There was a very numerous congregation to - day at St. Clement's Church , which Dr. Johnson said he observed with pleasure . And now I am to ...
... mind more delightful than Tempé . " JOHNSON : " Ay , Sir ; but let it be compared with Mull . " There was a very numerous congregation to - day at St. Clement's Church , which Dr. Johnson said he observed with pleasure . And now I am to ...
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... mind , he could not confine himself to the regularity of practice . He therefore ran about the world with a pleasant carelessness , amusing everybody by his desultory conversa- tion . He abounded in anecdote , but was not sufficiently ...
... mind , he could not confine himself to the regularity of practice . He therefore ran about the world with a pleasant carelessness , amusing everybody by his desultory conversa- tion . He abounded in anecdote , but was not sufficiently ...
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... mind , and in a more ornamental manner , than perhaps any Chancellor ever did , or ever will do . But , I believe , causes have been as judiciously decided as you could have done . " JOHNSON : " Yes , Sir . Property has been as well ...
... mind , and in a more ornamental manner , than perhaps any Chancellor ever did , or ever will do . But , I believe , causes have been as judiciously decided as you could have done . " JOHNSON : " Yes , Sir . Property has been as well ...
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