The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Together with The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides, Volume 6Bell, 1889 |
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... Johnson's manners , warmed to virtue even by the distant reflection of his glowing excellence , and encouraged ' Johnson's Works , vol . vii . , p . 143. Oxford Edition by the relation of his animated zeal to persist in.
... Johnson's manners , warmed to virtue even by the distant reflection of his glowing excellence , and encouraged ' Johnson's Works , vol . vii . , p . 143. Oxford Edition by the relation of his animated zeal to persist in.
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... virtue and learning he delighted to talk in very exalted terms ; and poor Dr. Lawrence had long been his friend and confidant . The conversation I saw them hold together in Essex - street one day in the year 1781 or 1782 , was a ...
... virtue and learning he delighted to talk in very exalted terms ; and poor Dr. Lawrence had long been his friend and confidant . The conversation I saw them hold together in Essex - street one day in the year 1781 or 1782 , was a ...
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... virtue . Nothing indeed " Dans l'adversitié de nos meilleurs amis , nous trouvons toujours quelque chose qui ne nous deplait pas . " - Reflexions ou Sentences et Maximes Morales , 1st ed . , 1665 , No. 99. This maxim was one of the ...
... virtue . Nothing indeed " Dans l'adversitié de nos meilleurs amis , nous trouvons toujours quelque chose qui ne nous deplait pas . " - Reflexions ou Sentences et Maximes Morales , 1st ed . , 1665 , No. 99. This maxim was one of the ...
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... virtues ( said he ) are the bons mots of life ; they do not appear often , and when they do appear are too much prized I ... virtue ( continued he ) , I hope I have not lost my sensibility of wrong ; but I hope likewise that I have lived ...
... virtues ( said he ) are the bons mots of life ; they do not appear often , and when they do appear are too much prized I ... virtue ( continued he ) , I hope I have not lost my sensibility of wrong ; but I hope likewise that I have lived ...
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... virtue never gave way to meaner considerations . We talked of a dead wit one evening , and somebody praised him- " Let us never praise talents so ill employed , Sir ; we foul our mouths by commending such in- fidels ( said he ) ...
... virtue never gave way to meaner considerations . We talked of a dead wit one evening , and somebody praised him- " Let us never praise talents so ill employed , Sir ; we foul our mouths by commending such in- fidels ( said he ) ...
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