The life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: comprehending an account of his studies and numerous works, in chronological order; a series of his epistolary correspondence and conversations with many eminent persons; and various original pieces of his composition, never before published: the whole exhibiting a view of literature and literary men in Great Britain, for nearly half a century during which he flourished. By James Boswell...G. Routledge and Sons, 1856 - 298 pages |
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... reason to be appre- hensive about me , because I knew that I myself was well ; but we might have mutual anxiety without the charge of folly , because each was , in some degree , uncertain as to the condition of the other . I enjoyed the ...
... reason to be appre- hensive about me , because I knew that I myself was well ; but we might have mutual anxiety without the charge of folly , because each was , in some degree , uncertain as to the condition of the other . I enjoyed the ...
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... reason for their going abroad ; and if it had not been fixed that he should have been one of the party , he would force them out ; but he would not advise them , unless his advice was asked , lest they might suspect that he recommended ...
... reason for their going abroad ; and if it had not been fixed that he should have been one of the party , he would force them out ; but he would not advise them , unless his advice was asked , lest they might suspect that he recommended ...
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... reason to believe Mr. Murray was very much influenced by what he had heard to - day , in his determination to send his own son to Westminster school . — I have acted in the same manner with regard to my own two sons ; having placed the ...
... reason to believe Mr. Murray was very much influenced by what he had heard to - day , in his determination to send his own son to Westminster school . — I have acted in the same manner with regard to my own two sons ; having placed the ...
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... reason , " is not altogether with him ; for it is held in the books , that an attack on the reputation even of a dead man may be punished as a libel , because tending to a breach of the peace . There is , however , I believe , no modern ...
... reason , " is not altogether with him ; for it is held in the books , that an attack on the reputation even of a dead man may be punished as a libel , because tending to a breach of the peace . There is , however , I believe , no modern ...
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... reasons for it . " I have heard Johnson pay his lordship this high compliment : " I never was in Lord Elibank's com- pany without learning something . " We sat together till it was too late for the afternoon service . Thrale said he had ...
... reasons for it . " I have heard Johnson pay his lordship this high compliment : " I never was in Lord Elibank's com- pany without learning something . " We sat together till it was too late for the afternoon service . Thrale said he had ...
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