The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D., Volume 1Talboys & Wheeler, 1826 |
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... learned , and the ingenious ; all these qualities I can , in perfect con- fidence of not being accused of flattery , ascribe to you . If a man may indulge an honest pride , in having it known to the world , that he has been thought.
... learned , and the ingenious ; all these qualities I can , in perfect con- fidence of not being accused of flattery , ascribe to you . If a man may indulge an honest pride , in having it known to the world , that he has been thought.
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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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... thought ridiculously osten- tatious . Let me only observe , as a specimen of my trou- ble , that I have sometimes been obliged to run half over London , in order to fix a date correctly ; which , when I had accomplished , I well knew ...
... thought ridiculously osten- tatious . Let me only observe , as a specimen of my trou- ble , that I have sometimes been obliged to run half over London , in order to fix a date correctly ; which , when I had accomplished , I well knew ...
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... thought myself in the company , and of the party almost throughout . It has given very general satisfaction ; and those who have found most fault with a passage here and there , have agreed that they could not help going through , and ...
... thought myself in the company , and of the party almost throughout . It has given very general satisfaction ; and those who have found most fault with a passage here and there , have agreed that they could not help going through , and ...
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... thought it worth his while to express with any degree of point , should perish . For this almost superstitious rever- ence , I have found very old and venerable authority , quoted by our great modern prelate , Secker , in whose tenth ...
... thought it worth his while to express with any degree of point , should perish . For this almost superstitious rever- ence , I have found very old and venerable authority , quoted by our great modern prelate , Secker , in whose tenth ...
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