The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Together with The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides, Volume 6Bell, 1889 |
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... truth . If Johnson then lamented that so little had ever been said about Butler , ' I might with more reason be led to complain that so much has been said about himself ; for numberless informers but distract or cloud information , as ...
... truth . If Johnson then lamented that so little had ever been said about Butler , ' I might with more reason be led to complain that so much has been said about himself ; for numberless informers but distract or cloud information , as ...
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... truth of reve- lation ; and at length recollecting a book he had once seen in his father's shop , intitled , " De Veritate Religionis , & c . " he began to think himself highly culpable for neglecting such a means of information , and ...
... truth of reve- lation ; and at length recollecting a book he had once seen in his father's shop , intitled , " De Veritate Religionis , & c . " he began to think himself highly culpable for neglecting such a means of information , and ...
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... truth . He told me however one day , how , when he was first entered at the university , he passed a morning , in compliance with the customs of the place , at his tutor's chamber ; but finding him no scholar , went no more . In about ...
... truth . He told me however one day , how , when he was first entered at the university , he passed a morning , in compliance with the customs of the place , at his tutor's chamber ; but finding him no scholar , went no more . In about ...
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... truth , would make the book useless to all , and in- jurious to my character . " " Oh ! as to that , " said I , " we should all fasten upon him , and force him to do you justice ; but the worst is , the Doctor does not know your life ...
... truth , would make the book useless to all , and in- jurious to my character . " " Oh ! as to that , " said I , " we should all fasten upon him , and force him to do you justice ; but the worst is , the Doctor does not know your life ...
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... truths in his " Lives of the later Poets , " what may I not apprehend , who , if I relate anecdotes of Mr. Johnson , am obliged to repeat expres- sions of severity , and sentences of contempt ? Let me at least soften them a little , by ...
... truths in his " Lives of the later Poets , " what may I not apprehend , who , if I relate anecdotes of Mr. Johnson , am obliged to repeat expres- sions of severity , and sentences of contempt ? Let me at least soften them a little , by ...
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