The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Together with The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides, Volume 6Bell, 1889 |
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Page 8
... kind heaped upon civil life , always sicken their possessors before the close of it . At the age of two years Mr. Johnson was brought up to London by his mother , to be touched by Queen Anne for the scrophulous evil , which terribly ...
... kind heaped upon civil life , always sicken their possessors before the close of it . At the age of two years Mr. Johnson was brought up to London by his mother , to be touched by Queen Anne for the scrophulous evil , which terribly ...
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... kind of game , there will be ever found ways of playing fairly or unfairly at it , which distin- guish the gentleman from the juggler . Dr. Johnson , as well as many of my acquaintance , knew that I kept a common - place book ; and he ...
... kind of game , there will be ever found ways of playing fairly or unfairly at it , which distin- guish the gentleman from the juggler . Dr. Johnson , as well as many of my acquaintance , knew that I kept a common - place book ; and he ...
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... kind of conversation pleased him less I think , than when the subject was historical fact or general polity . " What shall we learn from that stuff ( said he ) ? let us not fancy like Swift that we are exalting a woman's character by ...
... kind of conversation pleased him less I think , than when the subject was historical fact or general polity . " What shall we learn from that stuff ( said he ) ? let us not fancy like Swift that we are exalting a woman's character by ...
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... kind - setting at least those who are acknow- ledged wiser than ourselves at a distance . When we recollect however , that for this very reason they are seldom consulted and little obeyed , how much cause shall his contemporaries have ...
... kind - setting at least those who are acknow- ledged wiser than ourselves at a distance . When we recollect however , that for this very reason they are seldom consulted and little obeyed , how much cause shall his contemporaries have ...
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... kind consoler , the companion of the easy vacant hour , whose com- pliance with her opinions can flatter her vanity , and whose con- versation can just sooth , without ever stretching her mind , that is the lover to be feared : he who ...
... kind consoler , the companion of the easy vacant hour , whose com- pliance with her opinions can flatter her vanity , and whose con- versation can just sooth , without ever stretching her mind , that is the lover to be feared : he who ...
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