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No man loves to frustrate expectations which have been formed in his favour ; and the pleasure which I promise myself from your journals and remarks is so great , that perhaps no degree of attention or discernment will be sufficient to ...
No man loves to frustrate expectations which have been formed in his favour ; and the pleasure which I promise myself from your journals and remarks is so great , that perhaps no degree of attention or discernment will be sufficient to ...
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I having mentioned that I had passed some time with Rousseau in his wild retreat , and having quoted some remark made by Mr. Wilkes , with whom I had spent many pleasant hours in Italy , Johnson said , sarcastically , It seems ...
I having mentioned that I had passed some time with Rousseau in his wild retreat , and having quoted some remark made by Mr. Wilkes , with whom I had spent many pleasant hours in Italy , Johnson said , sarcastically , It seems ...
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Mr. John Campbell , minister of the parish of Kippen near Stirling , who has lately favoured me with a long , intelligent , and very obliging letter upon this work , makes the following remark . Dr. Johnson has alluded to the worthy man ...
Mr. John Campbell , minister of the parish of Kippen near Stirling , who has lately favoured me with a long , intelligent , and very obliging letter upon this work , makes the following remark . Dr. Johnson has alluded to the worthy man ...
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The whole of the scene should , in justice to its merit , be transcribed ; but the following passage from Almeria's speech is the one on which the remarks above were chiefly made . How reverend is the face of this tall pile ; Whose ...
The whole of the scene should , in justice to its merit , be transcribed ; but the following passage from Almeria's speech is the one on which the remarks above were chiefly made . How reverend is the face of this tall pile ; Whose ...
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He looked grave and angry , and entered into a serious refutation of the justice of the remark . What , sir , " said he , talk thus of a man of liberal education : -- a man who for years was at the university of Oxford : : -a man ...
He looked grave and angry , and entered into a serious refutation of the justice of the remark . What , sir , " said he , talk thus of a man of liberal education : -- a man who for years was at the university of Oxford : : -a man ...
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| Title | The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. Oxford English classics Volume 2 of The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D, James Boswell |
| Author | James Boswell |
| Publisher | Talboys & Wheeler, 1826 |
| Original from | the University of California |
| Digitized | 5 Jun 2018 |
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