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 122
... mind , what they eat . For my part , I mind my belly very studi- ously , and very carefully ; for I look upon it , that he who does not mind his belly , will hardly mind any thing else . " He now appeared to me Jean Bull philosophe ...
... mind , what they eat . For my part , I mind my belly very studi- ously , and very carefully ; for I look upon it , that he who does not mind his belly , will hardly mind any thing else . " He now appeared to me Jean Bull philosophe ...
Page 213
... mind is a great art , and it may be at- tained in a considerable degree by experience and habitual exercise . " BOSWELL . " Should not he provide amusements for himself ? Would it not , for instance , be right for him to take a course ...
... mind is a great art , and it may be at- tained in a considerable degree by experience and habitual exercise . " BOSWELL . " Should not he provide amusements for himself ? Would it not , for instance , be right for him to take a course ...
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... mind , of which the prejudices and partialities are known , and must therefore please , if not by favouring them , by forbearing to oppose them . To charge those favourable representations which men give of their own minds with the ...
... mind , of which the prejudices and partialities are known , and must therefore please , if not by favouring them , by forbearing to oppose them . To charge those favourable representations which men give of their own minds with the ...
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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