Boswell's Life of JohnsonG. Routledge and Sons, 1856 - 298 pages |
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... learned men abroad are in the universities . It is not so with us . Our universities are impoverished of learning , by the penury of their provisions . I wish there were many places of a thousand a - year at Oxford , to keep first ...
... learned men abroad are in the universities . It is not so with us . Our universities are impoverished of learning , by the penury of their provisions . I wish there were many places of a thousand a - year at Oxford , to keep first ...
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... learned to play at cards . " The truth , however , is , that he loved to display his ingenuity in argument ; and , therefore , would sometimes in conversation maintain opinions which he was sen- 1 There is an account of him in Sir John ...
... learned to play at cards . " The truth , however , is , that he loved to display his ingenuity in argument ; and , therefore , would sometimes in conversation maintain opinions which he was sen- 1 There is an account of him in Sir John ...
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... learned Baxter , in his edition of Horace , " Difficile est propriè communia dicere , h . e . res vulgares disertis verbis enarrare , vel humilè thema cum dignitate tractare . Difficile est communes res propriis explicare verbis . Vet ...
... learned Baxter , in his edition of Horace , " Difficile est propriè communia dicere , h . e . res vulgares disertis verbis enarrare , vel humilè thema cum dignitate tractare . Difficile est communes res propriis explicare verbis . Vet ...
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... in English , Johnson said , " The language of the Country of which a learned man was a native , is not the language fit for his epitaph , which alter the Epitaph in any manner they pleased , as. Дав 67.1 53 BOSWELL'S LIFE OF JOHNSON .
... in English , Johnson said , " The language of the Country of which a learned man was a native , is not the language fit for his epitaph , which alter the Epitaph in any manner they pleased , as. Дав 67.1 53 BOSWELL'S LIFE OF JOHNSON .
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... learned language , and in the language of the country ; so that they might have the advantage of being more universally understood , and at the same time be secured of classical stability . I cannot , however , but be of opinion that it ...
... learned language , and in the language of the country ; so that they might have the advantage of being more universally understood , and at the same time be secured of classical stability . I cannot , however , but be of opinion that it ...
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