The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.Talboys and Wheeler, 1826 |
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... by unpardonable inaccuracies in other respects , contains a collection of curious anecdotes and observations , which few men but its author could have brought together . - BOSWELL . of a diary and other papers as were left ; 2 THE LIFE OF.
... by unpardonable inaccuracies in other respects , contains a collection of curious anecdotes and observations , which few men but its author could have brought together . - BOSWELL . of a diary and other papers as were left ; 2 THE LIFE OF.
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... respect to be paid to knowledge , to virtue , and to truth d " • What I consider as the peculiar value of the following work , is the quantity it contains of Johnson's conversation ; which is universally acknowledged to have been ...
... respect to be paid to knowledge , to virtue , and to truth d " • What I consider as the peculiar value of the following work , is the quantity it contains of Johnson's conversation ; which is universally acknowledged to have been ...
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... respect for Jorden , not for his litera- ture , but for his worth . " Whenever , " said he , " a young man becomes Jorden's pupil , he becomes his son . " Having given such a specimen of his poetical powers , he was asked by Mr. Jorden ...
... respect for Jorden , not for his litera- ture , but for his worth . " Whenever , " said he , " a young man becomes Jorden's pupil , he becomes his son . " Having given such a specimen of his poetical powers , he was asked by Mr. Jorden ...
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... respect for it , than Johnson . His apartment in Pembroke P He told Dr. Burney , that he never wrote any of his works that were printed , twice over . Dr. Burney's wonder at seeing several pages of his Lives of the Poets , in manuscript ...
... respect for it , than Johnson . His apartment in Pembroke P He told Dr. Burney , that he never wrote any of his works that were printed , twice over . Dr. Burney's wonder at seeing several pages of his Lives of the Poets , in manuscript ...
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... respect ; and that though he loved to exhilarate himself with wine , he never knew him intoxicated but once . In a man whom religious education has secured from licentious indulgences , the passion of love , when once it has seized him ...
... respect ; and that though he loved to exhilarate himself with wine , he never knew him intoxicated but once . In a man whom religious education has secured from licentious indulgences , the passion of love , when once it has seized him ...
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