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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... nature of the work in other respects , as it consists of innumerable detached particulars , all which , even the most minute , I have spared no pains to ascertain with a scrupu- lous authenticity , has occasioned a degree of trouble far ...
... nature of the work in other respects , as it consists of innumerable detached particulars , all which , even the most minute , I have spared no pains to ascertain with a scrupu- lous authenticity , has occasioned a degree of trouble far ...
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... nature . That the conversation of a celebrated man , if his talents have been exerted in conversation , will best display his character , is , I trust , too well established in the judgment of mankind to be at all shaken by a sneering ...
... nature . That the conversation of a celebrated man , if his talents have been exerted in conversation , will best display his character , is , I trust , too well established in the judgment of mankind to be at all shaken by a sneering ...
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... natural or moral knowledge , whether we intend to enlarge our science or increase our virtue , are more im- portant than public occurrences . Thus Sallust , the great master of nature , has not forgot in his account of Catiline , to ...
... natural or moral knowledge , whether we intend to enlarge our science or increase our virtue , are more im- portant than public occurrences . Thus Sallust , the great master of nature , has not forgot in his account of Catiline , to ...
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... nature of which eludes the most minute inquiry , though the effects are well known to be a weariness of life , an unconcern about those things which agitate the greater part of mankind , and a general sen- sation of gloomy wretchedness ...
... nature of which eludes the most minute inquiry , though the effects are well known to be a weariness of life , an unconcern about those things which agitate the greater part of mankind , and a general sen- sation of gloomy wretchedness ...
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... nature or of art , with a nicety that is rarely to be found . When he and I were travelling in the Highlands of Scotland , and I pointed out to him a mountain which I observed resembled a cone , he corrected my innacuracy , by showing ...
... nature or of art , with a nicety that is rarely to be found . When he and I were travelling in the Highlands of Scotland , and I pointed out to him a mountain which I observed resembled a cone , he corrected my innacuracy , by showing ...
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