The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides With Samuel Johnson, LL.D.Library of Alexandria, 1791 M01 1 - 442 pages |
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... London, 20 September 1785. "He was of an admirable pregnancy of wit, and that pregnancy much improved by continual study from his childhood; by which he had gotten such a promptness in expressing his mind, that his extemporal speeches ...
... London, 20 September 1785. "He was of an admirable pregnancy of wit, and that pregnancy much improved by continual study from his childhood; by which he had gotten such a promptness in expressing his mind, that his extemporal speeches ...
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... London life, which,toa man who can enjoy it with full intellectual relish, isaptto make existence in any narrower sphereseeminsipid or irksome.I doubted thathe would notbe willing to comedown from hiselevated state of philosophical ...
... London life, which,toa man who can enjoy it with full intellectual relish, isaptto make existence in any narrower sphereseeminsipid or irksome.I doubted thathe would notbe willing to comedown from hiselevated state of philosophical ...
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... may be employed tosecure ourhaving so valuableanacquisition, and therefore I hope you willwithoutdelay write tome what I know you think, thatI may readittothe mightysage, with proper emphasis, before I leave London, which I must soon.
... may be employed tosecure ourhaving so valuableanacquisition, and therefore I hope you willwithoutdelay write tome what I know you think, thatI may readittothe mightysage, with proper emphasis, before I leave London, which I must soon.
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... London, andhope to havethe honour of paying my respects toMr Johnsonand you, abouta week or ten days hence. I shall thendowhat I can, to enforce the topick you mentioned; but at present I cannot enter upon it, as I am in a very great ...
... London, andhope to havethe honour of paying my respects toMr Johnsonand you, abouta week or ten days hence. I shall thendowhat I can, to enforce the topick you mentioned; but at present I cannot enter upon it, as I am in a very great ...
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... London, apoem,arethe following nervous lines: For who wouldleave, unbrib'd,Hibernia's land Or change therocks of Scotland for the Strand There none are swept by sudden fate away; But all, whom hunger spares, with age decay. The truth is ...
... London, apoem,arethe following nervous lines: For who wouldleave, unbrib'd,Hibernia's land Or change therocks of Scotland for the Strand There none are swept by sudden fate away; But all, whom hunger spares, with age decay. The truth is ...
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