The Personal History of Samuel JohnsonLongman, 1971 - 364 pages |
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Page 17
... remembered afterwards with shame how rude he had been when Jorden - ' a worthy man ' and a kind one for all his faults as a teacher - asked him why he had missed his lectures on logic . Sam replied , with ' as much nonchalance ' as he ...
... remembered afterwards with shame how rude he had been when Jorden - ' a worthy man ' and a kind one for all his faults as a teacher - asked him why he had missed his lectures on logic . Sam replied , with ' as much nonchalance ' as he ...
Page 87
... remembered her ' with prayers and tears in the morning ' , and again in the evening , though he was worried , as an Anglican , about the propriety of saying prayers for departed souls . A few days later he prayed that by true contrition ...
... remembered her ' with prayers and tears in the morning ' , and again in the evening , though he was worried , as an Anglican , about the propriety of saying prayers for departed souls . A few days later he prayed that by true contrition ...
Page 135
... remembered with painful distress every occasion upon which it had been provoked . He remembered with particular bitterness a night when he was talking with Johnson and Graham , the author of Telemachus , who was a master at Eton ...
... remembered with painful distress every occasion upon which it had been provoked . He remembered with particular bitterness a night when he was talking with Johnson and Graham , the author of Telemachus , who was a master at Eton ...
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