The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D., Volume 2Macmillan, 1912 |
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... JOHN- SON : " Why , Sir , I believe it is the first time he has beat ; he may have been beaten before . This , Sir , is a new plume to him . " I mentioned Sir John Dalrymple's " Memoirs of Great Britain and Ireland , " and his ...
... JOHN- SON : " Why , Sir , I believe it is the first time he has beat ; he may have been beaten before . This , Sir , is a new plume to him . " I mentioned Sir John Dalrymple's " Memoirs of Great Britain and Ireland , " and his ...
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... John Campbell , the author , he said : " He is a very inquisitive and a very able man , and a man of good religious principles , though I am afraid he has been deficient in practice . Campbell is radically right ; and we may hope , that ...
... John Campbell , the author , he said : " He is a very inquisitive and a very able man , and a man of good religious principles , though I am afraid he has been deficient in practice . Campbell is radically right ; and we may hope , that ...
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... JOHN- son : " I remember being present when he shewed himself to be so corrupted , or at least something so different from what I think right , as to maintain , that a member of Parliament should go along with his party right or wrong ...
... JOHN- son : " I remember being present when he shewed himself to be so corrupted , or at least something so different from what I think right , as to maintain , that a member of Parliament should go along with his party right or wrong ...
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... JOHN- son : " I am not sure of that . His friends give him out as such , but I know not who of his friends are able to judge of it . " GOLDSMITH : GOLDSMITH : " He is what is much better : he is a worthy humane man . JOHNSON : " Nay ...
... JOHN- son : " I am not sure of that . His friends give him out as such , but I know not who of his friends are able to judge of it . " GOLDSMITH : GOLDSMITH : " He is what is much better : he is a worthy humane man . JOHNSON : " Nay ...
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... JOHN- SON : " I have looked into it . " " What , " said Elphinston , " have you not read it through ? " Johnson , offended at being thus pressed , and so obliged to own his cursory mode of reading , answered tartly , " No , Sir ; do you ...
... JOHN- SON : " I have looked into it . " " What , " said Elphinston , " have you not read it through ? " Johnson , offended at being thus pressed , and so obliged to own his cursory mode of reading , answered tartly , " No , Sir ; do you ...
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