The Personal History of Samuel JohnsonLongman, 1971 - 364 pages |
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... religious doubts , Sam seems to have resolved the most troublesome of them while at Pedmore . At Lich- field he had come to be ' a sort of lax talker ' about religion , and had said silly or outrageous things to his mother for which he ...
... religious doubts , Sam seems to have resolved the most troublesome of them while at Pedmore . At Lich- field he had come to be ' a sort of lax talker ' about religion , and had said silly or outrageous things to his mother for which he ...
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... religious books ; and these he studied with as much diligence as he could muster , reading Homer and Euripides ... religion was ' the predominant object of his thoughts ; though with the just sentiments of a conscientious Christian ...
... religious books ; and these he studied with as much diligence as he could muster , reading Homer and Euripides ... religion was ' the predominant object of his thoughts ; though with the just sentiments of a conscientious Christian ...
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... religion in which you were educated . Change not but from conviction and reason . ' He talked to his visitors at length about the Christian religion , lamenting how he himself had neglected it for so long and had not read the Bible as ...
... religion in which you were educated . Change not but from conviction and reason . ' He talked to his visitors at length about the Christian religion , lamenting how he himself had neglected it for so long and had not read the Bible as ...
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