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 160
... turned a han- dle , which worked a spring that drove it forward . " Then , Sir , ( said Johnson , ) what is gained is , the man has his choice whether he will move himself alone , or himself and the machine too . " Dominicetti , being ...
... turned a han- dle , which worked a spring that drove it forward . " Then , Sir , ( said Johnson , ) what is gained is , the man has his choice whether he will move himself alone , or himself and the machine too . " Dominicetti , being ...
Page 185
... turned out of it . Old Baxter , I remember , maintains , that the magistrate should ' tolerate all things that are tolerable . ' This is no good definition of tol- eration upon any principle ; but it shews that he thought some things ...
... turned out of it . Old Baxter , I remember , maintains , that the magistrate should ' tolerate all things that are tolerable . ' This is no good definition of tol- eration upon any principle ; but it shews that he thought some things ...
Page 325
... turned round and wrote that down ; ' and went on to say to Dr. Johnson , ' Pope , Sir , would have said the same of if he had seen you distilling . ' JOHNSON . ' Sir , if Pope had told me of my distilling , I would have told him of his ...
... turned round and wrote that down ; ' and went on to say to Dr. Johnson , ' Pope , Sir , would have said the same of if he had seen you distilling . ' JOHNSON . ' Sir , if Pope had told me of my distilling , I would have told him of his ...
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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