The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.Talboys and Wheeler, 1826 |
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... letters unopened , to spare himself for a while from the shock of the ill tidings they might bear of his absent friends . It may be resolved , perhaps , into those instinctive feelings of our nature , for whose influence metaphysical ...
... letters unopened , to spare himself for a while from the shock of the ill tidings they might bear of his absent friends . It may be resolved , perhaps , into those instinctive feelings of our nature , for whose influence metaphysical ...
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... Letter to the people of Scotland , against diminishing the number of the Lords of Session , published in 1785 , there is the following passage , which , as a concise , and I hope a fair and rational state of the matter , I presume to ...
... Letter to the people of Scotland , against diminishing the number of the Lords of Session , published in 1785 , there is the following passage , which , as a concise , and I hope a fair and rational state of the matter , I presume to ...
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... letter from the East Indies , from a gentleman whom I formerly knew very well : he had returned from that country with a handsome fortune , as it was reckoned , before means were found to acquire those immense sums which have been ...
... letter from the East Indies , from a gentleman whom I formerly knew very well : he had returned from that country with a handsome fortune , as it was reckoned , before means were found to acquire those immense sums which have been ...
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... Letters being mentioned , Johnson surprised the company by this sentence : " Every man of any education would rather be called a rascal , than accused of deficiency in the graces . " Mr. Gibbon , who was present , turned to a lady who ...
... Letters being mentioned , Johnson surprised the company by this sentence : " Every man of any education would rather be called a rascal , than accused of deficiency in the graces . " Mr. Gibbon , who was present , turned to a lady who ...
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... letter with which you favoured me some time ago . I imagined it to have been written without Mr. Boswell's knowledge , and therefore supposed the answer to require , what I could not find , a private con- veyance . " The difference with ...
... letter with which you favoured me some time ago . I imagined it to have been written without Mr. Boswell's knowledge , and therefore supposed the answer to require , what I could not find , a private con- veyance . " The difference with ...
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