The life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: comprising a series of his epistolary correspondence and conversations with many eminent persons ...Routledge, 1867 - 526 pages |
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... honour and happiness of enjoying his friendship for upwards of twenty years ; as had the scheme of writing his life constantly in view ; as he was well apprised of this circum- stance , and from time to time obligingly satisfied my ...
... honour and happiness of enjoying his friendship for upwards of twenty years ; as had the scheme of writing his life constantly in view ; as he was well apprised of this circum- stance , and from time to time obligingly satisfied my ...
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... honour to make himself but a pair of tables , to take the wise and pithy words of others , than to have every word of his own to be made an apophthegm or an oracle . " [ Advancement of Learning , Book I. ] Having said thus much by way ...
... honour to make himself but a pair of tables , to take the wise and pithy words of others , than to have every word of his own to be made an apophthegm or an oracle . " [ Advancement of Learning , Book I. ] Having said thus much by way ...
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... honour thee for this thy duty . " & That superiority over his fellows , which he maintained with so much dignity in his march through life , was not assumed from vanity and ostentation , but was the natural and constant effect of those ...
... honour thee for this thy duty . " & That superiority over his fellows , which he maintained with so much dignity in his march through life , was not assumed from vanity and ostentation , but was the natural and constant effect of those ...
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... honour to our work , to have the favour of the genuine speech . It is a method that several have been pleased to take , as I could show , but I think myself under a restraint . I shall say so far , that I have had some by a third hand ...
... honour to our work , to have the favour of the genuine speech . It is a method that several have been pleased to take , as I could show , but I think myself under a restraint . I shall say so far , that I have had some by a third hand ...
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... honour of being librarian to Archibald Duke of Argyle , for many years , but was left without a shilling . Johnson wrote for him a Preface to " A System of Ancient Geography ; and , by the favour of Lord Thurlow , got him admitted a ...
... honour of being librarian to Archibald Duke of Argyle , for many years , but was left without a shilling . Johnson wrote for him a Preface to " A System of Ancient Geography ; and , by the favour of Lord Thurlow , got him admitted a ...
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