The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.Talboys and Wheeler, 1826 |
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Page 80
... consider the state of our own country ; -does not throwing a number of farms into one hand hurt population ? " JOHNSON . " Why no , sir ; the same quantity of food being produced , will be con- sumed by the same number of mouths ...
... consider the state of our own country ; -does not throwing a number of farms into one hand hurt population ? " JOHNSON . " Why no , sir ; the same quantity of food being produced , will be con- sumed by the same number of mouths ...
Page 81
... consider this : landlords cannot do without tenants . Now tenants will not give more for land , than land is worth . If they can make more of their money by keeping a shop , or any other way , they'll do it , and so oblige landlords to ...
... consider this : landlords cannot do without tenants . Now tenants will not give more for land , than land is worth . If they can make more of their money by keeping a shop , or any other way , they'll do it , and so oblige landlords to ...
Page 89
... consider yourself as upon the whole very happily married . " Talking of marriage in general , he observed , " Our marriage service is too refined . It is calculated only for the best kind of marriages ; whereas , we should have a form ...
... consider yourself as upon the whole very happily married . " Talking of marriage in general , he observed , " Our marriage service is too refined . It is calculated only for the best kind of marriages ; whereas , we should have a form ...
Page 91
... consider , that they have at last a king who knows not the name of party , and who wishes to be the common father of all his people . " To this pamphlet , which was at once discovered to be Johnson's , several answers came out , in ...
... consider , that they have at last a king who knows not the name of party , and who wishes to be the common father of all his people . " To this pamphlet , which was at once discovered to be Johnson's , several answers came out , in ...
Page 99
... considering how conversant the writers were with the best models of antiquity . " Burton's Anatomy of Melancholy , he said , was the only book that ever took him out of bed two hours sooner than he wished to rise . " He frequently ...
... considering how conversant the writers were with the best models of antiquity . " Burton's Anatomy of Melancholy , he said , was the only book that ever took him out of bed two hours sooner than he wished to rise . " He frequently ...
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