The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.Macmillan, 1912 |
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... attention by a person of the first eminence in the age in which he lived , whose company has been universally courted , I am justified in availing myself of the usual privilege of a Dedication , when I DEDICATION xi mention that there ...
... attention by a person of the first eminence in the age in which he lived , whose company has been universally courted , I am justified in availing myself of the usual privilege of a Dedication , when I DEDICATION xi mention that there ...
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... attention with which I have collected and arranged the materials of which these volumes are composed , will hardly be conceived by those who read them with careless facility . The stretch of mind and prompt assiduity by which so many ...
... attention with which I have collected and arranged the materials of which these volumes are composed , will hardly be conceived by those who read them with careless facility . The stretch of mind and prompt assiduity by which so many ...
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... attention to incidents which the credulous relate with eager satisfaction , and the more scrupulous or witty inquirer considers only as topics of ridicule : yet there is a traditional story of the infant Hercules of Toryism , so ...
... attention to incidents which the credulous relate with eager satisfaction , and the more scrupulous or witty inquirer considers only as topics of ridicule : yet there is a traditional story of the infant Hercules of Toryism , so ...
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... attention as an insult to his manliness , he ran back to her in a rage , and beat her , as well as his strength would permit . Of the power of his memory , for which he was all his life eminent to a degree almost incredible , the ...
... attention as an insult to his manliness , he ran back to her in a rage , and beat her , as well as his strength would permit . Of the power of his memory , for which he was all his life eminent to a degree almost incredible , the ...
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... attention and perceptive quick- ness made him see and distinguish all manner of objects , whether of nature or of art , with a nicety that is rarely to be found . When he and I were travelling in the High- lands of Scotland , and I ...
... attention and perceptive quick- ness made him see and distinguish all manner of objects , whether of nature or of art , with a nicety that is rarely to be found . When he and I were travelling in the High- lands of Scotland , and I ...
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