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In writing dedications for others , he considered himself as by no means speaking his own sentiments . Notwithstanding his long silence , I never omitted to write to him , when I had any thing worthy of communicating . VOL . II .
In writing dedications for others , he considered himself as by no means speaking his own sentiments . Notwithstanding his long silence , I never omitted to write to him , when I had any thing worthy of communicating . VOL . II .
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Talking of education , People have now - a - days , said he , got a strange opinion that every thing should be taught by lectures . Now I cannot see that lectures can do so much good as reading the books from which the lectures ...
Talking of education , People have now - a - days , said he , got a strange opinion that every thing should be taught by lectures . Now I cannot see that lectures can do so much good as reading the books from which the lectures ...
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... every thing that he believes ? BOSWELL . Then the vulgar , sir , never can know they are right , but must submit themselves to the learned . JOHNSON . To be sure , sir . The vulgar are the children of the state , and must be ...
... every thing that he believes ? BOSWELL . Then the vulgar , sir , never can know they are right , but must submit themselves to the learned . JOHNSON . To be sure , sir . The vulgar are the children of the state , and must be ...
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You give yourself no more concern about a new play , than if you had never had any thing to do with the stage . ... But as we advance in the journey of life , we drop some of the things which have pleased us ; whether it be that we are ...
You give yourself no more concern about a new play , than if you had never had any thing to do with the stage . ... But as we advance in the journey of life , we drop some of the things which have pleased us ; whether it be that we are ...
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Since you will not inform us where you are , or how you live , I know not whether you desire to know any thing of us . However , I will tell you that THE CLUB subsists ; but we have the loss of Burke's company since ; he has been ...
Since you will not inform us where you are , or how you live , I know not whether you desire to know any thing of us . However , I will tell you that THE CLUB subsists ; but we have the loss of Burke's company since ; he has been ...
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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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