The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.Macmillan, 1900 |
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... sure I am right , and there's an end on't . " I said to him that it was certainly true , as my friend Dempster had observed in his letter to me upon the subject , that a great part of what was in his " Journey to the Western Islands of ...
... sure I am right , and there's an end on't . " I said to him that it was certainly true , as my friend Dempster had observed in his letter to me upon the subject , that a great part of what was in his " Journey to the Western Islands of ...
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... sure , Sir , it is better to live rich , than to die rich . " EDWARDS : " I wish I had continued at college . " JOHNSON : " Why do you wish that , Sir ? " EDWARDS : " Because I think I should have had a much easier life than mine has ...
... sure , Sir , it is better to live rich , than to die rich . " EDWARDS : " I wish I had continued at college . " JOHNSON : " Why do you wish that , Sir ? " EDWARDS : " Because I think I should have had a much easier life than mine has ...
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... A bookish man should always 1 I am not absolutely sure but this was my own suggestion , though it is truly in the character of Edwards . B. AN OLD ACQUAINTANCE 7 have them to converse with . 6 BOSWELL'S LIFE OF JOHNSON.
... A bookish man should always 1 I am not absolutely sure but this was my own suggestion , though it is truly in the character of Edwards . B. AN OLD ACQUAINTANCE 7 have them to converse with . 6 BOSWELL'S LIFE OF JOHNSON.
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... sure it should not be . But who 1 Probably Dr. Shebbeare , a political writer in 1758 , who , after having been twice convicted and punished for seditious libels on the government , ended as its pensioner . EASTER DAY , 1778 15 is ...
... sure it should not be . But who 1 Probably Dr. Shebbeare , a political writer in 1758 , who , after having been twice convicted and punished for seditious libels on the government , ended as its pensioner . EASTER DAY , 1778 15 is ...
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... sure , till we had a positive revelation . " I told him , that his " Rasselas " had often made me unhappy ; for it represented the misery of human life so well , and so convincingly to a thinking mind , that if at any time the ...
... sure , till we had a positive revelation . " I told him , that his " Rasselas " had often made me unhappy ; for it represented the misery of human life so well , and so convincingly to a thinking mind , that if at any time the ...
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