The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.Talboys & Wheeler, 1826 |
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James Boswell. ture as ever lived : and I believe he would not have done harm to a man whom he knew to be of very opposite principles to his own . I remember once at the Society of Arts , when an advertisement was to be drawn up , he ...
James Boswell. ture as ever lived : and I believe he would not have done harm to a man whom he knew to be of very opposite principles to his own . I remember once at the Society of Arts , when an advertisement was to be drawn up , he ...
Page 89
... believe , two thousand pounds . " WILKES . " How can it be possible to spend that money in Scot- land ? " JOHNSON . " Why , sir , the money may be spent in England ; but there is a harder question . If one man in Scotland gets ...
... believe , two thousand pounds . " WILKES . " How can it be possible to spend that money in Scot- land ? " JOHNSON . " Why , sir , the money may be spent in England ; but there is a harder question . If one man in Scotland gets ...
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... believe this , for they must certainly be highly pleased by his conversation ; conscious of his own superiority , he an- swered , " No , sir ; great lords and great ladies don't love to have their mouths stopped . " This was very ...
... believe this , for they must certainly be highly pleased by his conversation ; conscious of his own superiority , he an- swered , " No , sir ; great lords and great ladies don't love to have their mouths stopped . " This was very ...
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... believe , will agree . Their principles are the same , though their modes of thinking are different . A high tory makes government unintelligible : it is lost in the clouds . A violent whig makes it impracticable : he is for allowing so ...
... believe , will agree . Their principles are the same , though their modes of thinking are different . A high tory makes government unintelligible : it is lost in the clouds . A violent whig makes it impracticable : he is for allowing so ...
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... believe to be the just one ; which is , that communicants need not think a long train of preparatory forms indispensably necessary ; but neither should they rashly and lightly venture upon so awful and mysterious an institution ...
... believe to be the just one ; which is , that communicants need not think a long train of preparatory forms indispensably necessary ; but neither should they rashly and lightly venture upon so awful and mysterious an institution ...
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