The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.Derby, 1826 |
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Page 80
... dear old friend . There is one passage in the original , better transfused by Oldham than by Johnson : Nil habet infelix paupertas durius in se , Quam quod ridiculos homines facit : which is an exquisite remark on the galling meanness ...
... dear old friend . There is one passage in the original , better transfused by Oldham than by Johnson : Nil habet infelix paupertas durius in se , Quam quod ridiculos homines facit : which is an exquisite remark on the galling meanness ...
Page 95
... DEAR SIR , —You may remember I have formerly talked with you about a military dictionary . The eldest Mr. Mac- bean , who was with Mr. Chambers , has very good materials for such a work , which I have seen , and will do it at a very low ...
... DEAR SIR , —You may remember I have formerly talked with you about a military dictionary . The eldest Mr. Mac- bean , who was with Mr. Chambers , has very good materials for such a work , which I have seen , and will do it at a very low ...
Page 115
... dear mother . If it be necessary to pay this in less time , I believe I can do it ; but I take two months for a certainty , and beg an answer whether you can allow me so much time . I think myself very much obliged to your forbearance ...
... dear mother . If it be necessary to pay this in less time , I believe I can do it ; but I take two months for a certainty , and beg an answer whether you can allow me so much time . I think myself very much obliged to your forbearance ...
Page 154
... DEAR SIR , -I cannot but confess the failures of my correspondence , but hope the same regard which you ex- press for me on every other occasion , will incline you to forgive me . I am often , very often , ill ; and , when I am well ...
... DEAR SIR , -I cannot but confess the failures of my correspondence , but hope the same regard which you ex- press for me on every other occasion , will incline you to forgive me . I am often , very often , ill ; and , when I am well ...
Page 156
... DEAR SIR , -You have , as I find by every kind of evi- dence , lost an excellent mother ; and I hope you will not think me incapable of partaking of your grief . I have a mother , now eighty - two years of age , whom , therefore , I ...
... DEAR SIR , -You have , as I find by every kind of evi- dence , lost an excellent mother ; and I hope you will not think me incapable of partaking of your grief . I have a mother , now eighty - two years of age , whom , therefore , I ...
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