Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.H. Washbourne, 1857 - 580 pages |
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Page 177
... remarked , that he neither wanted parts nor literature ; but that his vanity and Quixotism obscured his merits . " He ... remark- ed , that the advice given to Diomed * by his father , when he sent him to the Trojan war , was the noblest ...
... remarked , that he neither wanted parts nor literature ; but that his vanity and Quixotism obscured his merits . " He ... remark- ed , that the advice given to Diomed * by his father , when he sent him to the Trojan war , was the noblest ...
Page 248
... remark , " Man never is , but always to be blest . " He asserted , that the present was never a happy state to any human being ; but that , as every part of life , of which we are con- scious , was at some point of time a period yet to ...
... remark , " Man never is , but always to be blest . " He asserted , that the present was never a happy state to any human being ; but that , as every part of life , of which we are con- scious , was at some point of time a period yet to ...
Page 285
... remark introduced into Cap- tain Brydone's entertaining tour , I hope heedlessly , from a kind of vanity which is too common in those who have not suffici- ently studied the most important of all sub- jects . Dr. Johnson , indeed , had ...
... remark introduced into Cap- tain Brydone's entertaining tour , I hope heedlessly , from a kind of vanity which is too common in those who have not suffici- ently studied the most important of all sub- jects . Dr. Johnson , indeed , had ...
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