The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.Macmillan, 1912 |
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... . Johnson coupled him for learning with Bentley , but used to warn Boswell against his unorthodoxy , though he afterwards changed his mind on this point . ADVERTISEMENT TO THE FIRST EDITION I at last deliver to xii DEDICATION.
... . Johnson coupled him for learning with Bentley , but used to warn Boswell against his unorthodoxy , though he afterwards changed his mind on this point . ADVERTISEMENT TO THE FIRST EDITION I at last deliver to xii DEDICATION.
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... learning , was an excellent biographer . His contributions to my Collection are highly estimable ; and as he had a true relish of my " Tour to the Hebrides , " I trust I should now have been gratified with a larger share of his kind ...
... learning , was an excellent biographer . His contributions to my Collection are highly estimable ; and as he had a true relish of my " Tour to the Hebrides , " I trust I should now have been gratified with a larger share of his kind ...
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... gloomy wretchedness . From him then his son inherited , with some other qualities , " a vile melancholy , " which in 1 Bacon's Advancement of Learning , Book I. B. his too strong expression of any disturbance of the mind.
... gloomy wretchedness . From him then his son inherited , with some other qualities , " a vile melancholy , " which in 1 Bacon's Advancement of Learning , Book I. B. his too strong expression of any disturbance of the mind.
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... learning all over this diocese , and advanceth knowledge to its just height ; all the clergy here are his pupils , and suck all they have from him ; Allen cannot make a warrant without his precedent , nor our quondam John Evans draw a ...
... learning all over this diocese , and advanceth knowledge to its just height ; all the clergy here are his pupils , and suck all they have from him ; Allen cannot make a warrant without his precedent , nor our quondam John Evans draw a ...
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... learning . His curiosity having been thus excited , he sat down with avidity , and read a great part of the book . What he read during these two years , he told me , was not works of mere amusement , " Not voyages and travels , but all ...
... learning . His curiosity having been thus excited , he sat down with avidity , and read a great part of the book . What he read during these two years , he told me , was not works of mere amusement , " Not voyages and travels , but all ...
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