The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Together with The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides, Volume 6Bell, 1889 |
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... Human Wishes , " calling her " The general favourite as the general friend . " Nor could any one pay more willing homage to such a character , though she had not been related to him , than did Dr. Johnson on every occasion that offered ...
... Human Wishes , " calling her " The general favourite as the general friend . " Nor could any one pay more willing homage to such a character , though she had not been related to him , than did Dr. Johnson on every occasion that offered ...
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... human creature ; but poor Bathurst is dead !!! " - Here a long pause and a few tears ensued . " Why Sir , " said I , " how like is all this to Jean Jacques Rousseau ! as like , I mean , as the sensations of frost and fire , when my ...
... human creature ; but poor Bathurst is dead !!! " - Here a long pause and a few tears ensued . " Why Sir , " said I , " how like is all this to Jean Jacques Rousseau ! as like , I mean , as the sensations of frost and fire , when my ...
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... human beings ; ever musing till he was called out to converse , and conversing till the fatigue of his friends , or the promptitude of his own temper to take offence , consigned him back again to silent meditation . The remembrance of ...
... human beings ; ever musing till he was called out to converse , and conversing till the fatigue of his friends , or the promptitude of his own temper to take offence , consigned him back again to silent meditation . The remembrance of ...
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... human bliss to human woe . " " The inscription on the collar of Sir Joseph Banks's goat which had been on two of his adventurous expeditions with him , and was then , by the humanity of her amiable master , turned out to graze in Kent ...
... human bliss to human woe . " " The inscription on the collar of Sir Joseph Banks's goat which had been on two of his adventurous expeditions with him , and was then , by the humanity of her amiable master , turned out to graze in Kent ...
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... human mind . " Our English author on the other hand exclaims , let no man give himself leave to talk about infinite number , for infinite number is a contradiction in terms ; whatever is once numbered , we all see cannot be infinite ...
... human mind . " Our English author on the other hand exclaims , let no man give himself leave to talk about infinite number , for infinite number is a contradiction in terms ; whatever is once numbered , we all see cannot be infinite ...
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