The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.J. Murray, 1831 - Hebrides (Scotland) |
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... recollecting that Boswell professes to have endeavoured to reconcile him with Dr. Johnson , we cannot but wonder at the mode in which he attempted to accomplish that object . - ED . ] pursue him if you dare . ' He had not 46 1783 ...
... recollecting that Boswell professes to have endeavoured to reconcile him with Dr. Johnson , we cannot but wonder at the mode in which he attempted to accomplish that object . - ED . ] pursue him if you dare . ' He had not 46 1783 ...
Page 47
... recollect that you set out with at- tacking the Scotch ; so you got a whole nation for your enemies . " . JOHNSON . " Why , I own that by my definition of oats I meant to vex them . " Bos- WELL . " Pray , sir , can you trace the cause ...
... recollect that you set out with at- tacking the Scotch ; so you got a whole nation for your enemies . " . JOHNSON . " Why , I own that by my definition of oats I meant to vex them . " Bos- WELL . " Pray , sir , can you trace the cause ...
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... a compensation which is made to them . them look inwards and be satisfied ; recollecting with conscious pride what Virgil finely says of the Corycius Let Senex , and which I have , in another place 52 1783. - ETAT . 74 .
... a compensation which is made to them . them look inwards and be satisfied ; recollecting with conscious pride what Virgil finely says of the Corycius Let Senex , and which I have , in another place 52 1783. - ETAT . 74 .
Page 59
... recollect something , he suddenly stopped and said , " I cannot go , -but i do not love Beauclerk the less . " On the frame of his portrait Mr. Beauclerk had inscribed 66 Ingenium ingens Inculto latet hoc sub corpore 4. " 66 1 [ Mrs ...
... recollect something , he suddenly stopped and said , " I cannot go , -but i do not love Beauclerk the less . " On the frame of his portrait Mr. Beauclerk had inscribed 66 Ingenium ingens Inculto latet hoc sub corpore 4. " 66 1 [ Mrs ...
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... recollect only Thrale's . He observed , " There is a wicked inclination in most people to suppose an old man decayed in his intellects . If a young or middle - aged man , when leaving a company , does not recollect where he laid his hat ...
... recollect only Thrale's . He observed , " There is a wicked inclination in most people to suppose an old man decayed in his intellects . If a young or middle - aged man , when leaving a company , does not recollect where he laid his hat ...
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