The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.Macmillan, 1900 |
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... obliging to me , and who lived with Dr. Johnson in as easy a 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 ...
... obliging to me , and who lived with Dr. Johnson in as easy a 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 ...
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... obliged to tell her , that you would be in as respectable a situation in my house as in hers . Sir , the insolence of wealth will creep out . " Bos- WELL " She has a little both of the insolence of wealth , and the conceit of parts ...
... obliged to tell her , that you would be in as respectable a situation in my house as in hers . Sir , the insolence of wealth will creep out . " Bos- WELL " She has a little both of the insolence of wealth , and the conceit of parts ...
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... obliged to speak the truth ; so that what he says is not considered as his opinion ; yet he has said it , and cannot retract it ; and this author , when mankind are hunting him with a canister at his tail , can say , ' I would not have ...
... obliged to speak the truth ; so that what he says is not considered as his opinion ; yet he has said it , and cannot retract it ; and this author , when mankind are hunting him with a canister at his tail , can say , ' I would not have ...
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... obliged to drink or do any thing else that may happen to be agreeable to the company where we are . " LANG- TON : " By the same rule you must join with a gang of cut - purses . " JOHNSON : " Yes , Sir : but yet we must do justice to ...
... obliged to drink or do any thing else that may happen to be agreeable to the company where we are . " LANG- TON : " By the same rule you must join with a gang of cut - purses . " JOHNSON : " Yes , Sir : but yet we must do justice to ...
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... obliging manner , promised to tell all he recollected about Pope , and was so very courteous as to say , " Tell Dr. Johnson , I have a great respect for him , and am ready to shew it in any way I can . I am to be in the city to - morrow ...
... obliging manner , promised to tell all he recollected about Pope , and was so very courteous as to say , " Tell Dr. Johnson , I have a great respect for him , and am ready to shew it in any way I can . I am to be in the city to - morrow ...
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