Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. |
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That the conversation of a celebrated | striking lecture on the value of time , by inman , if his talents have been exerted in forming us , that when he had made an apconversation , will best display his character , pointment , he ...
That the conversation of a celebrated | striking lecture on the value of time , by inman , if his talents have been exerted in forming us , that when he had made an apconversation , will best display his character , pointment , he ...
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You will not find a man in tion was paid to him than usual , which put whose conversation there is more instruction , him out of humour ; and upon some imagimore information , and more elegance , than nary offence from me , he attacked ...
You will not find a man in tion was paid to him than usual , which put whose conversation there is more instruction , him out of humour ; and upon some imagimore information , and more elegance , than nary offence from me , he attacked ...
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mon conversation , that he at all times ex . | dience , his real opinions could seldom be pressed his thoughts with great force , and gathered from his talk ; though when he was an elegant choice of language , the effect of in company ...
mon conversation , that he at all times ex . | dience , his real opinions could seldom be pressed his thoughts with great force , and gathered from his talk ; though when he was an elegant choice of language , the effect of in company ...
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| Title | Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. |
| Author | James Boswell |
| Publisher | H. Washbourne, 1857 |
| Length | 580 pages |
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