The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.Talboys and Wheeler, 1826 |
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... once desire to learn , they will naturally have recourse to the nearest language by which that desire can be gratified ; and one will tell another , that if he would attain knowledge , he must learn English . " This speculation may ...
... once desire to learn , they will naturally have recourse to the nearest language by which that desire can be gratified ; and one will tell another , that if he would attain knowledge , he must learn English . " This speculation may ...
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... once was courteously easy * . " Dr. Johnson had the honour of contributing his assistance towards the for- mation of this library ; for I have read a long letter from him to Mr. Barnard , giving the most masterly instructions on the ...
... once was courteously easy * . " Dr. Johnson had the honour of contributing his assistance towards the for- mation of this library ; for I have read a long letter from him to Mr. Barnard , giving the most masterly instructions on the ...
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... once it comes to calling names , argument is pretty well at an end . " 66 66 His majesty then asked him what he thought of lord Lyttelton's history , which was then just published . John- son said , he thought his style pretty good ...
... once it comes to calling names , argument is pretty well at an end . " 66 66 His majesty then asked him what he thought of lord Lyttelton's history , which was then just published . John- son said , he thought his style pretty good ...
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... once excited to vigorous exertion , and tempered by reverential awe . During all the time in which Dr. Johnson was employed in relating to the circle at sir Joshua Reynolds's the par- ticulars of what passed between the king and him ...
... once excited to vigorous exertion , and tempered by reverential awe . During all the time in which Dr. Johnson was employed in relating to the circle at sir Joshua Reynolds's the par- ticulars of what passed between the king and him ...
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... once to be sadly plagued with a man who wrote verses , but who liter- ally had no other notion of a verse , but that it consisted of ten syllables . Lay your knife and your fork across your plate , was to him a verse : Lay your knife ...
... once to be sadly plagued with a man who wrote verses , but who liter- ally had no other notion of a verse , but that it consisted of ten syllables . Lay your knife and your fork across your plate , was to him a verse : Lay your knife ...
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