The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.Macmillan, 1912 |
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... truth , I have still kept in my mind that the whole truth is not always to be exposed . This , however , I have managed so as to occasion no diminution of the pleasure which my book should afford ; though malignity may sometimes be ...
... truth , I have still kept in my mind that the whole truth is not always to be exposed . This , however , I have managed so as to occasion no diminution of the pleasure which my book should afford ; though malignity may sometimes be ...
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... truth . " 1 What I consider as the peculiar value of the following work , is the quantity it contains of Johnson's conversation , which is universally acknowledged to have been eminently instructive and entertaining ; and of which the ...
... truth . " 1 What I consider as the peculiar value of the following work , is the quantity it contains of Johnson's conversation , which is universally acknowledged to have been eminently instructive and entertaining ; and of which the ...
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... truth , from a man so still and so tame , as to be contented to pass many years as the domestic companion of a super- annuated lord and lady , ' conversation could no more be expected than from a Chinese mandarin on a chimney- piece ...
... truth , from a man so still and so tame , as to be contented to pass many years as the domestic companion of a super- annuated lord and lady , ' conversation could no more be expected than from a Chinese mandarin on a chimney- piece ...
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... truth is , that the appel- lation of Gentleman , though now lost in the indiscriminate assumption of Esquire , was commonly taken by those who could not boast of gentility . His father was Michael Johnson , a native of Derbyshire , of ...
... truth is , that the appel- lation of Gentleman , though now lost in the indiscriminate assumption of Esquire , was commonly taken by those who could not boast of gentility . His father was Michael Johnson , a native of Derbyshire , of ...
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... truth of which I am to refute upon his own authority . It is told , ' that , when a child of three years old , he chanced to tread upon a duckling , the eleventh of a brood , and killed it ; upon which , it is said , he dictated to his ...
... truth of which I am to refute upon his own authority . It is told , ' that , when a child of three years old , he chanced to tread upon a duckling , the eleventh of a brood , and killed it ; upon which , it is said , he dictated to his ...
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