The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Comprehending an Account of His Studies and Numerous Works, in Chronological Order; a Series of His Epistolary Correspondence and Conversations with Many Eminent Persons; and Various Original Pieces of His Composition Never Before Published: the Whole Exhibiting a View of Literature and Literary Men in Great-Britain, for Near Half a Century During which He Flourished, Volume 1National ilustrated library, 1851 |
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Page 100
... merit is not peculiar to me . You may , if you please , still have what I can say ; but I shall engage with little spirit in an affair , which I shall hardly end to my own satisfaction , and certainly not to the satisfaction of the ...
... merit is not peculiar to me . You may , if you please , still have what I can say ; but I shall engage with little spirit in an affair , which I shall hardly end to my own satisfaction , and certainly not to the satisfaction of the ...
Page 119
... merit . We , indeed , occasionally find such vigour and such point , as might make us suppose that the generous aid ... merits in his art , the reward was too great when compared with what the most suc- cessful efforts of literary labour ...
... merit . We , indeed , occasionally find such vigour and such point , as might make us suppose that the generous aid ... merits in his art , the reward was too great when compared with what the most suc- cessful efforts of literary labour ...
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... merit ought to make the only distinction among mankind . JOHNSON : " Why , Sir , mankind have found that this cannot be . How shall we determine the proportion of intrinsic merit ? Were that to be the only distinction amongst mankind ...
... merit ought to make the only distinction among mankind . JOHNSON : " Why , Sir , mankind have found that this cannot be . How shall we determine the proportion of intrinsic merit ? Were that to be the only distinction amongst mankind ...
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