The Personal History of Samuel JohnsonLongman, 1971 - 364 pages |
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Page 7
... learned or the knowledge he had acquired . Sam , indeed , grew so to dread these injunctions ' to exhibit his knowledge ' to his relations , or to the few friends his parents had , that he ' used to run up a tree when company was ...
... learned or the knowledge he had acquired . Sam , indeed , grew so to dread these injunctions ' to exhibit his knowledge ' to his relations , or to the few friends his parents had , that he ' used to run up a tree when company was ...
Page 29
... learned . The second class does the same ... Afterwards , they are to get and repeat the irregular nouns . ' It was clear that Johnson's heart was not really in his new school , that his forlorn enterprise was likely to succeed no ...
... learned . The second class does the same ... Afterwards , they are to get and repeat the irregular nouns . ' It was clear that Johnson's heart was not really in his new school , that his forlorn enterprise was likely to succeed no ...
Page 94
... learned and without any patronage of the great ; not in the soft obscurities of retirement , or under the shelter of academic bowers , but amidst inconvenience and distraction , in sickness and sorrow ' . To Bennet Langton he wrote that ...
... learned and without any patronage of the great ; not in the soft obscurities of retirement , or under the shelter of academic bowers , but amidst inconvenience and distraction , in sickness and sorrow ' . To Bennet Langton he wrote that ...
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