“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: ...G. Routledge & Company, Farringdon Street, 1857 - 300 pages |
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... sure . " They bear a small proportion to the whole , which consists of four hundred and thirty - eight verses . Goldsmith , in the couplet which he inserted , mentions Luke as a person well known , and superficial readers have passed it ...
... sure . " They bear a small proportion to the whole , which consists of four hundred and thirty - eight verses . Goldsmith , in the couplet which he inserted , mentions Luke as a person well known , and superficial readers have passed it ...
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... sure , Sir , there are ; but they don't know it . There is no being so poor and so contemptible , who does not think there is somebody still poorer , and still more contemptible . " As my stay in London at this time was very short , I ...
... sure , Sir , there are ; but they don't know it . There is no being so poor and so contemptible , who does not think there is somebody still poorer , and still more contemptible . " As my stay in London at this time was very short , I ...
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... sure that they were not invented : - " Why , foolish fellow , " said Johnson , “ has he any better authority for almost everything that he believes ? " BosWELL : " Then the vulgar , Sir , never can know they are right , but must submit ...
... sure that they were not invented : - " Why , foolish fellow , " said Johnson , “ has he any better authority for almost everything that he believes ? " BosWELL : " Then the vulgar , Sir , never can know they are right , but must submit ...
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... sure , an old comic writer ; but in the days of Scipio and Lelius , we find Terent . Heautontim . act ii . scene 3 , - hoc ipsa in itinere altera Dum narrat , forte audivi . ' " You doubt my having authority for using genus absolutely ...
... sure , an old comic writer ; but in the days of Scipio and Lelius , we find Terent . Heautontim . act ii . scene 3 , - hoc ipsa in itinere altera Dum narrat , forte audivi . ' " You doubt my having authority for using genus absolutely ...
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... sure I have a more than ordinary struggle to maintain with the Evil principle ; and all the methods I can devise are little enough to keep me tolerably steady in the paths of rectitude . * * * " I am ever , with the highest veneration ...
... sure I have a more than ordinary struggle to maintain with the Evil principle ; and all the methods I can devise are little enough to keep me tolerably steady in the paths of rectitude . * * * " I am ever , with the highest veneration ...
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