The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.Derby, 1826 |
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... honour thee for this thy duty . That superiority over his fellows , which he maintained with so much dignity in his march through life , was not assumed from vanity and ostentation , but was the natural and constant effect of those ...
... honour thee for this thy duty . That superiority over his fellows , which he maintained with so much dignity in his march through life , was not assumed from vanity and ostentation , but was the natural and constant effect of those ...
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... honour to human nature . Talking to me once him- self of his being much distinguished at school , he told me , they never thought to raise me by comparing me to any one ; they never said , Johnson is as good a scholar as such a one ...
... honour to human nature . Talking to me once him- self of his being much distinguished at school , he told me , they never thought to raise me by comparing me to any one ; they never said , Johnson is as good a scholar as such a one ...
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... honour by me . I had brought enough with me , to carry me through ; and all I should get at his school would be ascribed to my own labour , or to my former master . Yet he taught me a great deal . " He thus discriminated to Dr. Percy ...
... honour by me . I had brought enough with me , to carry me through ; and all I should get at his school would be ascribed to my own labour , or to my former master . Yet he taught me a great deal . " He thus discriminated to Dr. Percy ...
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... honours of a lasting name , Intrusts his happiness to human kind , More false , more cruel , than the seas or wind . " Toil on , dull crowd , in ecstacies he cries , For wealth or title , perishable prize ; While I those transitory ...
... honours of a lasting name , Intrusts his happiness to human kind , More false , more cruel , than the seas or wind . " Toil on , dull crowd , in ecstacies he cries , For wealth or title , perishable prize ; While I those transitory ...
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... honour of the present venerable master of that college , the reverend William Adams , D. D. who was then very young , and one of the junior fellows ; that the mild but judicious expostulations of this worthy man , whose virtue awed him ...
... honour of the present venerable master of that college , the reverend William Adams , D. D. who was then very young , and one of the junior fellows ; that the mild but judicious expostulations of this worthy man , whose virtue awed him ...
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