The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.Macmillan, 1900 |
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... pleased , asked where he lived , and said he should be glad to see him at Bolt Court . EDWARDS : " Ah , Sir ! we are old men now . " JOHNSON ( who never liked to think of being old ) : " Don't let us discourage one another . " EDWARDS ...
... pleased , asked where he lived , and said he should be glad to see him at Bolt Court . EDWARDS : " Ah , Sir ! we are old men now . " JOHNSON ( who never liked to think of being old ) : " Don't let us discourage one another . " EDWARDS ...
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... pleased with the honour of having been thus noticed by Dr. Johnson . When he was gone , I said to Johnson , I thought him but a weak man . JOHNSON : " Why yes , Sir . Here is a man who has passed through life without experience : yet I ...
... pleased with the honour of having been thus noticed by Dr. Johnson . When he was gone , I said to Johnson , I thought him but a weak man . JOHNSON : " Why yes , Sir . Here is a man who has passed through life without experience : yet I ...
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... pleased , and never interfered . Upon which I read it to him , article by article , and got him positively to own or refuse ; and then , having obtained certainty so far , I got some other articles confirmed by him directly , and after ...
... pleased , and never interfered . Upon which I read it to him , article by article , and got him positively to own or refuse ; and then , having obtained certainty so far , I got some other articles confirmed by him directly , and after ...
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... pleased with himself . I do not say that it makes him more pleasing to others . Sometimes it does . But the danger is , that while a man grows better pleased with himself , he may be growing less pleasing to others.1 Wine gives a man ...
... pleased with himself . I do not say that it makes him more pleasing to others . Sometimes it does . But the danger is , that while a man grows better pleased with himself , he may be growing less pleasing to others.1 Wine gives a man ...
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... pleased with those who partake pleasure with them . But after a man has brought himself to relinquish the great personal pleasure which arises from drinking wine , any other consideration is a trifle . To please others by drinking wine ...
... pleased with those who partake pleasure with them . But after a man has brought himself to relinquish the great personal pleasure which arises from drinking wine , any other consideration is a trifle . To please others by drinking wine ...
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