Boswell's Life of JohnsonG. Routledge and Sons, 1856 - 298 pages |
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... mentioned that old Mr. Sheridan complained of the ingratitude of Mr. Wedderburne and General Fraser , who had been much obliged to him when they were young Scotchmen entering upon life in England . JOHNSON : " Why , Sir , a man is very ...
... mentioned that old Mr. Sheridan complained of the ingratitude of Mr. Wedderburne and General Fraser , who had been much obliged to him when they were young Scotchmen entering upon life in England . JOHNSON : " Why , Sir , a man is very ...
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... mentioned a common remark , that a man may be , upon the whole , richer by marrying a woman with a very small portion , because a woman of fortune will be proportionally expensive ; whereas a woman who brings none will be very moderate ...
... mentioned a common remark , that a man may be , upon the whole , richer by marrying a woman with a very small portion , because a woman of fortune will be proportionally expensive ; whereas a woman who brings none will be very moderate ...
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... mentioned to him several extraordinary facts , as communicated to him by the circum- navigators , slily observed , " Sir , I never before knew how much I was respected by these gentlemen ; they told me none of these things . " He had ...
... mentioned to him several extraordinary facts , as communicated to him by the circum- navigators , slily observed , " Sir , I never before knew how much I was respected by these gentlemen ; they told me none of these things . " He had ...
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... mentioned . BOSWELL : " I should think that where military men are so numerous , they would be less valued as not being rare . " JOHNSON : " Nay , Sir , wherever a particular character or profession is high in the estimation of a people ...
... mentioned . BOSWELL : " I should think that where military men are so numerous , they would be less valued as not being rare . " JOHNSON : " Nay , Sir , wherever a particular character or profession is high in the estimation of a people ...
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... mentioned Mr. Maclaurin's ' uneasiness on account of a degree of ridicule carelessly thrown on his deceased father , in Goldsmith's " History of Animated Nature , " in which that celebrated mathematician is represented as being subject ...
... mentioned Mr. Maclaurin's ' uneasiness on account of a degree of ridicule carelessly thrown on his deceased father , in Goldsmith's " History of Animated Nature , " in which that celebrated mathematician is represented as being subject ...
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