Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.H. Washbourne, 1857 - 580 pages |
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Page 49
... mind , which he could , when he pleased , embody and render permanent without much labour . Some of them , however , he observed , were too gross for imitation . The profits of a single poem , however ex- cellent , appear to have been ...
... mind , which he could , when he pleased , embody and render permanent without much labour . Some of them , however , he observed , were too gross for imitation . The profits of a single poem , however ex- cellent , appear to have been ...
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... mind , what they eat . For my part , I mind my belly very studiously , and very carefully ; for I look upon it , that he who does not mind his belly will hardly mind any thing else . " He now appeared to me Jean Bull philosophe , and he ...
... mind , what they eat . For my part , I mind my belly very studiously , and very carefully ; for I look upon it , that he who does not mind his belly will hardly mind any thing else . " He now appeared to me Jean Bull philosophe , and he ...
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... mind , the other the nose of the mind . A young gentleman present took up the argument against him , and maintained that no man ever thinks of the nose of the mind , not adverting that though that figurative sense seems strange to us ...
... mind , the other the nose of the mind . A young gentleman present took up the argument against him , and maintained that no man ever thinks of the nose of the mind , not adverting that though that figurative sense seems strange to us ...
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