The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D., Volume 2Macmillan, 1912 |
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... honour to inform the public , that I have lived many years in intimacy with you . It may serve the interests of mankind also to inform them , that the greatest wit may be found in a character , without impairing the most unaffected ...
... honour to inform the public , that I have lived many years in intimacy with you . It may serve the interests of mankind also to inform them , that the greatest wit may be found in a character , without impairing the most unaffected ...
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... honour to him . But his farewell letter to the Faculty of Advocates , when he resigned the office of their Librarian , should have been in Latin . " I put a question to him upon a fact in common life , which he could not answer , nor ...
... honour to him . But his farewell letter to the Faculty of Advocates , when he resigned the office of their Librarian , should have been in Latin . " I put a question to him upon a fact in common life , which he could not answer , nor ...
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... honours , -a competition for riches . It also hurts the bodies of the people ; for you will observe , there is no man who works at any particular trade , but you may know him from his appearance to do so . One part or the other of his ...
... honours , -a competition for riches . It also hurts the bodies of the people ; for you will observe , there is no man who works at any particular trade , but you may know him from his appearance to do so . One part or the other of his ...
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... honour to propose me , and Beauclerk was very zealous for me . Goldsmith being mentioned ; JOHNSON : " It is amazing how little Goldsmith knows . He seldom comes where he is not more ignorant than any one else . " SIR JOSHUA REYNOLDS ...
... honour to propose me , and Beauclerk was very zealous for me . Goldsmith being mentioned ; JOHNSON : " It is amazing how little Goldsmith knows . He seldom comes where he is not more ignorant than any one else . " SIR JOSHUA REYNOLDS ...
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... honoured by having his monument first erected there . Somebody suggested Pope . JOHNSON : " Why , Sir , as Pope was a Roman Catholic , I would not have his to be first . I think Milton's rather should have the precedence . I think 1 In ...
... honoured by having his monument first erected there . Somebody suggested Pope . JOHNSON : " Why , Sir , as Pope was a Roman Catholic , I would not have his to be first . I think Milton's rather should have the precedence . I think 1 In ...
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