The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. |
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I remember this very question very happily illustrated in opposition to Hume , by the reverend Mr. Robert Brown , at Utrecht . " A small drinking - glass and a large one , " said he , may be equally full ; but the large one holds more ...
I remember this very question very happily illustrated in opposition to Hume , by the reverend Mr. Robert Brown , at Utrecht . " A small drinking - glass and a large one , " said he , may be equally full ; but the large one holds more ...
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SIR , I did not expect to hear that it could be , in an assembly convened for the propagation of christian knowledge , a question whether any nation uninstructed in religion should receive instruction ; or whether that instruction ...
SIR , I did not expect to hear that it could be , in an assembly convened for the propagation of christian knowledge , a question whether any nation uninstructed in religion should receive instruction ; or whether that instruction ...
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In the first place , a man cannot be in a passion " Here some question interrupted him , which is to be regretted , as he certainly would have pointed out and illustrated many circumstances of advantage , from being in a situation ...
In the first place , a man cannot be in a passion " Here some question interrupted him , which is to be regretted , as he certainly would have pointed out and illustrated many circumstances of advantage , from being in a situation ...
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I wonder , said Johnson , that he should find them P. " He would not admit the importance of the question concerning the legality of general warrants . Such a power , he observed , must be vested in every government ...
I wonder , said Johnson , that he should find them P. " He would not admit the importance of the question concerning the legality of general warrants . Such a power , he observed , must be vested in every government ...
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So ingenious a turn did he give to this delicate question . And yet , on another occasion , he owned that he once bad almost asked a promise of Mrs. Johnson that she would not marry again , but had checked himself .
So ingenious a turn did he give to this delicate question . And yet , on another occasion , he owned that he once bad almost asked a promise of Mrs. Johnson that she would not marry again , but had checked himself .
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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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