The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.Heritage Press, 1963 |
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Page 175
... reason assigned was , that he had company with him ; and that at last , when the door opened , out walked Colley Cibber ; and that Johnson was so violently provoked when he found for whom he had been so long excluded , that he went away ...
... reason assigned was , that he had company with him ; and that at last , when the door opened , out walked Colley Cibber ; and that Johnson was so violently provoked when he found for whom he had been so long excluded , that he went away ...
Page 176
... reason to believe , that he will bring this as near to perfection as any man could do . The plan of it , which he published some years ago , seems to me to be a proof of it . Nothing can be more rationally imagined , or more accurately ...
... reason to believe , that he will bring this as near to perfection as any man could do . The plan of it , which he published some years ago , seems to me to be a proof of it . Nothing can be more rationally imagined , or more accurately ...
Page 309
... reason to apprehend that he will tell many lies for himself ? ' I am , however , satisfied that every servant , of any degree of intelligence , understands saying his master is not at home , not at all as the affirma- tion of a fact ...
... reason to apprehend that he will tell many lies for himself ? ' I am , however , satisfied that every servant , of any degree of intelligence , understands saying his master is not at home , not at all as the affirma- tion of a fact ...
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