The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Together with The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides, Volume 6Bell, 1889 |
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... hope ( replied he ) , that I should have willingly lived on bread and water to obtain instruction for them ; but I would not have set their future friendship to hazard for the sake of thrusting into their heads knowledge of things for ...
... hope ( replied he ) , that I should have willingly lived on bread and water to obtain instruction for them ; but I would not have set their future friendship to hazard for the sake of thrusting into their heads knowledge of things for ...
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... language since , that pleased me as much . I hope my translation ( continued he ) is not worse than that of Frank See Life , vol . iv . , June 30 , 1784 . Fawkes . " Seeing me disposed to laugh , " BY MRS . PIOZZI . 21.
... language since , that pleased me as much . I hope my translation ( continued he ) is not worse than that of Frank See Life , vol . iv . , June 30 , 1784 . Fawkes . " Seeing me disposed to laugh , " BY MRS . PIOZZI . 21.
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... hope that the reason our hearts rebelled a little against his severity , was chiefly because it came from a living mouth . - Books were invented to take off the odium of immediate superiority , and soften the rigour of duties prescribed ...
... hope that the reason our hearts rebelled a little against his severity , was chiefly because it came from a living mouth . - Books were invented to take off the odium of immediate superiority , and soften the rigour of duties prescribed ...
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... hope ( replied he after a long pause ) -I should have been very sorry ; -but remember Rochefoucault's maxim . " — " I would rather ( answered I ) remember Prior's verses , and ask , ' What need of books these truths to tell Which folks ...
... hope ( replied he after a long pause ) -I should have been very sorry ; -but remember Rochefoucault's maxim . " — " I would rather ( answered I ) remember Prior's verses , and ask , ' What need of books these truths to tell Which folks ...
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... hope I have not lost my sensibility of wrong ; but I hope likewise that I have lived long enough in the world to prevent me from expecting to find any action of which both the original motive and all the parts were good . " The piety of ...
... hope I have not lost my sensibility of wrong ; but I hope likewise that I have lived long enough in the world to prevent me from expecting to find any action of which both the original motive and all the parts were good . " The piety of ...
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