The Portable Johnson & BoswellViking Press, 1947 - 762 pages Two great and vivid personalitites of English letters revealed in their most charactersitc writings; Johnson; critical essays, letters, poems: Boswell; Life of Johnson, Journal of a tour to the Hebrides, and the Dialogue with Rousseau, etc. |
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Page 117
... learning . " JOHNSON . " Why , Sir , that may be true in cases where learning cannot possibly be of any use ; for instance , this boy rows us as well without learning , as if he could sing the song of Orpheus to the Argonauts , who were ...
... learning . " JOHNSON . " Why , Sir , that may be true in cases where learning cannot possibly be of any use ; for instance , this boy rows us as well without learning , as if he could sing the song of Orpheus to the Argonauts , who were ...
Page 204
... learning of the Scotch , — " Their learning is like bread in a besieged town : every man gets a little , but no man gets a full meal . " " There is ( said he , ) in Scotland a diffusion of learning , a certain portion of it widely and ...
... learning of the Scotch , — " Their learning is like bread in a besieged town : every man gets a little , but no man gets a full meal . " " There is ( said he , ) in Scotland a diffusion of learning , a certain portion of it widely and ...
Page 403
... learning during the Civil War and had never recovered it . He said we afforded the only instance of a people among whom the arts of civil life did not advance in proportion with learning ; that we had hardly any trade , any money , or ...
... learning during the Civil War and had never recovered it . He said we afforded the only instance of a people among whom the arts of civil life did not advance in proportion with learning ; that we had hardly any trade , any money , or ...
Contents
Editors Introduction | 1 |
From The Life of Samuel Johnson | 41 |
From The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides | 376 |
Copyright | |
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