The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.Talboys & Wheeler, 1826 |
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... known to the present , and will continue to be the admiration of future ages . Your equal and placid temper , your variety of conversation , your true politeness , by which you are so amiable in private society , and that enlarged ...
... known to the present , and will continue to be the admiration of future ages . Your equal and placid temper , your variety of conversation , your true politeness , by which you are so amiable in private society , and that enlarged ...
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James Boswell. known to the world , that he has been thought worthy of particular 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 ...
James Boswell. known to the world , that he has been thought worthy of particular 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 ...
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... known Johnson from his early years , and was his friend through life . What reason I had to hope for the countenance of that venerable gentleman to this work , will appear from what he wrote to me upon a former occasion from Oxford ...
... known Johnson from his early years , and was his friend through life . What reason I had to hope for the countenance of that venerable gentleman to this work , will appear from what he wrote to me upon a former occasion from Oxford ...
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... known as a worthy man and an obliging friend . In the strangely mixed scenes of human existence , our feelings are often at once pleasing and painful . Of this truth , the progress of the present work furnishes a striking instance . It ...
... known as a worthy man and an obliging friend . In the strangely mixed scenes of human existence , our feelings are often at once pleasing and painful . Of this truth , the progress of the present work furnishes a striking instance . It ...
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James Boswell. being more extensively and intimately known , however elevated before , has risen in the veneration and love of mankind , I feel a satisfaction beyond what fame can afford . We cannot , indeed , too much or too often ...
James Boswell. being more extensively and intimately known , however elevated before , has risen in the veneration and love of mankind , I feel a satisfaction beyond what fame can afford . We cannot , indeed , too much or too often ...
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