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The account of Thuanus is with great of the dead , there is yet more respect to be propriety said by its authour to have been paid to knowledge , to virtue and to truth . ” > 1 written , that it might lay open to posterity What I ...
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HowBut , upon the whole , knowledge , per se , is cer- ever , I will acknowledge that I have a better tainly an object which every man would wish to opinion of him now , than I once had ; for he has attain , although , perhaps he may ...
HowBut , upon the whole , knowledge , per se , is cer- ever , I will acknowledge that I have a better tainly an object which every man would wish to opinion of him now , than I once had ; for he has attain , although , perhaps he may ...
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A might have found a great deal scattered in vari- man ( said he , ) may choose whether he will have ous books , had he read solely with that view . abstemiousness and knowledge , or claret and Henry erred in not selling his first ...
A might have found a great deal scattered in vari- man ( said he , ) may choose whether he will have ous books , had he read solely with that view . abstemiousness and knowledge , or claret and Henry erred in not selling his first ...
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| Title | Life of SAMUEL JOHNSON LL.D |
| Author | JAMES BOSWELL |
| Published | 1952 |
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