Boswell's Life of JohnsonG. Routledge and Sons, 1856 - 298 pages |
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... natural philosophers of his time . He was born in Roxburghshire in 1707 , and was , at this period , the President of the Royal Society , to which office he had been elected in 1772. He died in 1782. - ED voyage . JOHNSON : " Why , Sir ...
... natural philosophers of his time . He was born in Roxburghshire in 1707 , and was , at this period , the President of the Royal Society , to which office he had been elected in 1772. He died in 1782. - ED voyage . JOHNSON : " Why , Sir ...
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... Nature , " in which that celebrated mathematician is represented as being subject to fits of yawning so violent as to render him incapable of proceeding in his lecture ; a story altogether unfounded , but for the publication of which ...
... Nature , " in which that celebrated mathematician is represented as being subject to fits of yawning so violent as to render him incapable of proceeding in his lecture ; a story altogether unfounded , but for the publication of which ...
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... natural to suppose that he told his story in his own way , and it is certain that he was not a very sturdy moralist . " " This explanation appears to me very satisfactory . It is , however , to be observed that the story told by Johnson ...
... natural to suppose that he told his story in his own way , and it is certain that he was not a very sturdy moralist . " " This explanation appears to me very satisfactory . It is , however , to be observed that the story told by Johnson ...
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... nature ; for it is plain they broke off from some other people . Had they grown out of the ground you might have judged of a state of pure nature . Fanciful people may talk of a mythology being amongst them ; but it must be invention ...
... nature ; for it is plain they broke off from some other people . Had they grown out of the ground you might have judged of a state of pure nature . Fanciful people may talk of a mythology being amongst them ; but it must be invention ...
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... nature . Power , in whatever hands it is placed , will be some .. times improperly exerted ; yet courts of law must judge , though they will sometimes judge amiss . A father must instruct his children , though he himself may often want ...
... nature . Power , in whatever hands it is placed , will be some .. times improperly exerted ; yet courts of law must judge , though they will sometimes judge amiss . A father must instruct his children , though he himself may often want ...
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