The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.Macmillan, 1900 |
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... shews his writings to people of eminence , to obtain from them , either from their good - nature , or from their not being able to tell the truth firmly , a commendation of which he may afterwards avail himself . " JOHNSON : " Very true ...
... shews his writings to people of eminence , to obtain from them , either from their good - nature , or from their not being able to tell the truth firmly , a commendation of which he may afterwards avail himself . " JOHNSON : " Very true ...
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... shew how much he can spare . It has all the invidiousness of self - praise , and all the reproach of falsehood . " Bos- WELL : " Sometimes it may proceed from a man's strong consciousness of his faults being observed . He knows that ...
... shew how much he can spare . It has all the invidiousness of self - praise , and all the reproach of falsehood . " Bos- WELL : " Sometimes it may proceed from a man's strong consciousness of his faults being observed . He knows that ...
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... shew his extraordinary talents with the most powerful ability and animation . JOHNSON : " Yet this man cut his own throat . The true strong and sound mind is the mind that can embrace equally great things and small . Now I am told the ...
... shew his extraordinary talents with the most powerful ability and animation . JOHNSON : " Yet this man cut his own throat . The true strong and sound mind is the mind that can embrace equally great things and small . Now I am told the ...
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... shew it in any way I can . I am to be in the city to - morrow , and will call at his house as I return . " His Lordship however asked , " Will he write the Lives of the Poets impartially ? He was the first that brought Whig and Tory ...
... shew it in any way I can . I am to be in the city to - morrow , and will call at his house as I return . " His Lordship however asked , " Will he write the Lives of the Poets impartially ? He was the first that brought Whig and Tory ...
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... shews how ambitious he was of the approbation of so great a man . B. 2 Bulse , from bolsa , a Portuguese word signifying a purse ; used in India for a certain quantity of diamonds . Imp . Dict . 3 See ante , Vol . I. p . 109 , note . + ...
... shews how ambitious he was of the approbation of so great a man . B. 2 Bulse , from bolsa , a Portuguese word signifying a purse ; used in India for a certain quantity of diamonds . Imp . Dict . 3 See ante , Vol . I. p . 109 , note . + ...
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