The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.J. M. Dent, 1925 |
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... human feelings . None but a reverent man ( which so unspeak- ably few are ) , could have found his way from Boswell's environment to Johnson's if such worship for real God - made superiors showed itself also as worship for apparent ...
... human feelings . None but a reverent man ( which so unspeak- ably few are ) , could have found his way from Boswell's environment to Johnson's if such worship for real God - made superiors showed itself also as worship for apparent ...
Page 112
... Human Wishes " has less of common life , but more of a philosophick dignity than his " London . " More readers , therefore , will be delighted with the pointed spirit of " London , " than with the profound reflection of " The Vanity of ...
... Human Wishes " has less of common life , but more of a philosophick dignity than his " London . " More readers , therefore , will be delighted with the pointed spirit of " London , " than with the profound reflection of " The Vanity of ...
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... human life , and shews us that this stage of our being is full of " vanity and vexation of spirit . " To those who look no further than the present life , or who maintain that human nature has not fallen from the state in which it was ...
... human life , and shews us that this stage of our being is full of " vanity and vexation of spirit . " To those who look no further than the present life , or who maintain that human nature has not fallen from the state in which it was ...
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