The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.Derby, 1826 |
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Page 85
... reason to become cold and callous , and discontented with the world , from the neglect which he experienced of his publick and private worth , by those in whose power it was to gratify so gallant a veteran with marks of distinction ...
... reason to become cold and callous , and discontented with the world , from the neglect which he experienced of his publick and private worth , by those in whose power it was to gratify so gallant a veteran with marks of distinction ...
Page 90
... reason has there been , both for himself and his country , to rejoice that it did not succeed , as he might probably have wasted in obscurity those hours in which he afterwards produced his incomparable works . About this time he made ...
... reason has there been , both for himself and his country , to rejoice that it did not succeed , as he might probably have wasted in obscurity those hours in which he afterwards produced his incomparable works . About this time he made ...
Page 100
... reason , any company , any employment whatever , he preferred to being alone . The great busi- ness of his life , he said , was to escape from himself ; this disposition he considered as the disease of his mind , which nothing cured but ...
... reason , any company , any employment whatever , he preferred to being alone . The great busi- ness of his life , he said , was to escape from himself ; this disposition he considered as the disease of his mind , which nothing cured but ...
Page 105
... reason , I believe , to doubt the veracity of Cave . It is , however , remarkable , that none of these letters are in the years during which Johnson alone fur- . nished the debates , and one of them is in the very year after he ceased ...
... reason , I believe , to doubt the veracity of Cave . It is , however , remarkable , that none of these letters are in the years during which Johnson alone fur- . nished the debates , and one of them is in the very year after he ceased ...
Page 109
... reason I neither admit numbers or dates , nor reject them . " I am of your opinion with regard to placing most of the resolutions , etc. in the margin , and think we shall give the most complete account of parliamentary proceedings that ...
... reason I neither admit numbers or dates , nor reject them . " I am of your opinion with regard to placing most of the resolutions , etc. in the margin , and think we shall give the most complete account of parliamentary proceedings that ...
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