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: the Whole Exhibiting a View of Literature and Literary Men in Great-Britain, for Near Half a Century, During which He Flourished. In Three VolumesHenry Baldwin, 1793 |
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... because I could not bear it ; I have drunk three bottles of port without being the worse for it . Univerfity College has witneffed this . " BOSWELL . " Why then , Sir , did you leave it aff ? " JOHNSON . Why , Sir , because it is fo ...
... because I could not bear it ; I have drunk three bottles of port without being the worse for it . Univerfity College has witneffed this . " BOSWELL . " Why then , Sir , did you leave it aff ? " JOHNSON . Why , Sir , because it is fo ...
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... because the greatest part- of men are grofs . " BOSWELL . " I allow there may be greater pleasure than from wine . I have had more pleasure from your converfation . I have indeed ; I affure you I have . " JOHNSON . " When we talk of ...
... because the greatest part- of men are grofs . " BOSWELL . " I allow there may be greater pleasure than from wine . I have had more pleasure from your converfation . I have indeed ; I affure you I have . " JOHNSON . " When we talk of ...
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... because he has lived in a large place : but what is got by books and thinking is preserved in a nar- row place as well as in a large place . A man cannot know modes of life as well in Minorca as in London ; but he may ftudy mathematicks ...
... because he has lived in a large place : but what is got by books and thinking is preserved in a nar- row place as well as in a large place . A man cannot know modes of life as well in Minorca as in London ; but he may ftudy mathematicks ...
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... because the money which he draws from it gets back again in circulation ; but to his particular district , his particular parish , he does an injury . All that he has to give away is not given to those who have the first claim to it ...
... because the money which he draws from it gets back again in circulation ; but to his particular district , his particular parish , he does an injury . All that he has to give away is not given to those who have the first claim to it ...
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... and a pow- dered wig is afhamed to be illiterate . I believe it is not fo in France . Yet there is , probably , a great deal of learning in France , because they have D 2 fuch 1778 . Etat . 69 . fuch a number of DR . JOHNSON . 35.
... and a pow- dered wig is afhamed to be illiterate . I believe it is not fo in France . Yet there is , probably , a great deal of learning in France , because they have D 2 fuch 1778 . Etat . 69 . fuch a number of DR . JOHNSON . 35.
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