Boswell's Life of JohnsonG. Routledge and Sons, 1856 - 298 pages |
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Page 3
... true . A woman of fortune , being used to the handling of money , spends it judiciously ; but a woman who gets the command of money for the first time upon her marriage , has such a gust in spending it , that she throws it away with ...
... true . A woman of fortune , being used to the handling of money , spends it judiciously ; but a woman who gets the command of money for the first time upon her marriage , has such a gust in spending it , that she throws it away with ...
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... true ; for they have nothing good enough to keep a man of eminent learning with them for his life . In the foreign universities a professorship is a high thing . It is as much almost as a man can make by his learning ; and therefore we ...
... true ; for they have nothing good enough to keep a man of eminent learning with them for his life . In the foreign universities a professorship is a high thing . It is as much almost as a man can make by his learning ; and therefore we ...
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... true in every material circumstance : -Shiels was the principal collector and digester of the materials for the work ; but as he was very raw in authorship , an indifferent writer in prose , and his language full of Scotticisms , Cibber ...
... true in every material circumstance : -Shiels was the principal collector and digester of the materials for the work ; but as he was very raw in authorship , an indifferent writer in prose , and his language full of Scotticisms , Cibber ...
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... true , you have now shortened Mrs. Thrale's life , perhaps some minutes , by accelerating her pulsation . " On Thursday , April 11 , I dined with him at General Paoli's , in whose house I now resided , and where I had ever afterwards ...
... true , you have now shortened Mrs. Thrale's life , perhaps some minutes , by accelerating her pulsation . " On Thursday , April 11 , I dined with him at General Paoli's , in whose house I now resided , and where I had ever afterwards ...
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... true poetical genius , the power of viewing everything in a poetical light . His fault is such a cloud of words sometimes , that the sense can hardly peep through . Shiels , who compiled ' Cibber's Lives of the Poets , ' was one day ...
... true poetical genius , the power of viewing everything in a poetical light . His fault is such a cloud of words sometimes , that the sense can hardly peep through . Shiels , who compiled ' Cibber's Lives of the Poets , ' was one day ...
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