Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.H. Washbourne, 1857 - 580 pages |
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... learning will ever contemplate it with veneration . " One day , while he was sitting in it quite alone , Dr. Panting , then master of the College , whom he called " a fine jacobite fellow , " overheard him uttering this soliloquy in his ...
... learning will ever contemplate it with veneration . " One day , while he was sitting in it quite alone , Dr. Panting , then master of the College , whom he called " a fine jacobite fellow , " overheard him uttering this soliloquy in his ...
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... learning , and great wit and vivacity . Mr. Grierson died in Germany , at the age of twenty - seven . Dr. Johnson highly respected his abilities , and often observed , that he possessed more ex- tensive knowledge than any man of his ...
... learning , and great wit and vivacity . Mr. Grierson died in Germany , at the age of twenty - seven . Dr. Johnson highly respected his abilities , and often observed , that he possessed more ex- tensive knowledge than any man of his ...
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... learning which was the character of Menage . And I may be bold to say , that the excellent works he publish- ed will not distinguish him from other learned men so advantageously as this . To publish books of great learning , to make ...
... learning which was the character of Menage . And I may be bold to say , that the excellent works he publish- ed will not distinguish him from other learned men so advantageously as this . To publish books of great learning , to make ...
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