The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.Talboys and Wheeler, 1826 |
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... acquaintance with people so totally different from all that we have ever known , and be satisfied what pure nature can do for man . JOHNSON . " What could you learn , sir ? What can savages tell , but what they them- selves have seen ...
... acquaintance with people so totally different from all that we have ever known , and be satisfied what pure nature can do for man . JOHNSON . " What could you learn , sir ? What can savages tell , but what they them- selves have seen ...
Page 43
... acquaintance you could find one exception ? " The lady smiled , and seemed to acquiesce . 66 " I read , " said he , Sharpe's Letters on Italy over again , when I was at Bath . There is a great deal of matter in them . " " Mrs. Williams ...
... acquaintance you could find one exception ? " The lady smiled , and seemed to acquiesce . 66 " I read , " said he , Sharpe's Letters on Italy over again , when I was at Bath . There is a great deal of matter in them . " " Mrs. Williams ...
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... acquainted with celebrated men of every description , had made me , much about the same time , obtain an introduction to Dr. Samuel Johnson and to John Wilkes , esq . Two men more different could , perhaps , not be selected out of all ...
... acquainted with celebrated men of every description , had made me , much about the same time , obtain an introduction to Dr. Samuel Johnson and to John Wilkes , esq . Two men more different could , perhaps , not be selected out of all ...
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... acquaintance , as I respected and lived in intimacy with both of them , observed to me once , very in- geniously , " It is not in friendship as in mathematicks , where two things , each equal to a third , are equal between themselves ...
... acquaintance , as I respected and lived in intimacy with both of them , observed to me once , very in- geniously , " It is not in friendship as in mathematicks , where two things , each equal to a third , are equal between themselves ...
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James Boswell. share of the profits for procuring customers amongst his numerous acquaintance . Fitzherbert was one ... acquainted with , and that not from ostentatious views . Garrick was very poor when he began life ; so when he came to ...
James Boswell. share of the profits for procuring customers amongst his numerous acquaintance . Fitzherbert was one ... acquainted with , and that not from ostentatious views . Garrick was very poor when he began life ; so when he came to ...
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