Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.H. Washbourne, 1857 - 580 pages |
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... opinion of it , that is honest praise , to which one may trust . But if an author asks me if I like his book , and I give him something like praise , it must not be taken as my real opinion . " Lay your knife and your fōrk across your ...
... opinion of it , that is honest praise , to which one may trust . But if an author asks me if I like his book , and I give him something like praise , it must not be taken as my real opinion . " Lay your knife and your fōrk across your ...
Page 199
... opinion , that they ought to adhere to it ; but I had exhausted all my powers of reasoning in vain . Johnson thought ... opinion : not by a cer- tain rule to which he can apply his inten- tion before he acts , but by an uncertain and ...
... opinion , that they ought to adhere to it ; but I had exhausted all my powers of reasoning in vain . Johnson thought ... opinion : not by a cer- tain rule to which he can apply his inten- tion before he acts , but by an uncertain and ...
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... opinion that we ought not to re- fine too much in the education of our children , 342 Edwards , Thomas , Esq . his ' Canons of Criticism , '69 , n . Rev. Dr. , Johnson's letter to , 405 Mr. ( Johnson's fellow collegian , ) anecdotes of ...
... opinion that we ought not to re- fine too much in the education of our children , 342 Edwards , Thomas , Esq . his ' Canons of Criticism , '69 , n . Rev. Dr. , Johnson's letter to , 405 Mr. ( Johnson's fellow collegian , ) anecdotes of ...
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