The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.Talboys & Wheeler, 1826 |
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... told they had op- posed it , he said , ' Sir , among the anfractuosities of the human mind , I know not if it may not be one , that there is a superstitious reluctance to sit for a picture . ” " John Gilbert Cooper related , that soon ...
... told they had op- posed it , he said , ' Sir , among the anfractuosities of the human mind , I know not if it may not be one , that there is a superstitious reluctance to sit for a picture . ” " John Gilbert Cooper related , that soon ...
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... told a phy- sical truth : if I thought so , though I should have been mistaken , I told a moral truth . " " " Huggins , the translator of Ariosto , and Mr. Thomas Warton , in the early part of his literary life , had a dispute ...
... told a phy- sical truth : if I thought so , though I should have been mistaken , I told a moral truth . " " " Huggins , the translator of Ariosto , and Mr. Thomas Warton , in the early part of his literary life , had a dispute ...
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... told me of my distilling , I would have told him of his grotto . " " 999 " He would allow no settled indulgence of idleness upon principle , and always repelled every attempt to urge ex- cuses for it . A friend one day suggested , that ...
... told me of my distilling , I would have told him of his grotto . " " 999 " He would allow no settled indulgence of idleness upon principle , and always repelled every attempt to urge ex- cuses for it . A friend one day suggested , that ...
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... told Mr. Langton , that John- son said to him , ' Sir , a man has no more right to say an uncivil thing , than to act one : no more right to say a rude thing to another , than to knock him down . " " 66 My dear friend Dr. Bathurst ...
... told Mr. Langton , that John- son said to him , ' Sir , a man has no more right to say an uncivil thing , than to act one : no more right to say a rude thing to another , than to knock him down . " " 66 My dear friend Dr. Bathurst ...
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... told in his lively manner the following literary anecdote : Green and Guthrie , an Irishman and a Scotch- man , undertook a translation of Duhalde's History of China . Green said of Guthrie , that he knew no English ; and Guthrie of ...
... told in his lively manner the following literary anecdote : Green and Guthrie , an Irishman and a Scotch- man , undertook a translation of Duhalde's History of China . Green said of Guthrie , that he knew no English ; and Guthrie of ...
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