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Page 10
We talked of education at great schools ; the advantages and disadvantages of
which Johnson displayed in a luminous manner ; but his arguments
preponderated so much in favour of the benefit which a boy of good parts might
receive at one ...
We talked of education at great schools ; the advantages and disadvantages of
which Johnson displayed in a luminous manner ; but his arguments
preponderated so much in favour of the benefit which a boy of good parts might
receive at one ...
Page 13
Would it not rather weaken the right of primogeniture , or any other old and
universally acknowledged right , should the legislature pass an act in favour of it
? In my Letter to the people of Scotland , against diminishing the number of the
Lords ...
Would it not rather weaken the right of primogeniture , or any other old and
universally acknowledged right , should the legislature pass an act in favour of it
? In my Letter to the people of Scotland , against diminishing the number of the
Lords ...
Page 34
I observed , that wine did some people harm , by inflaming , confusing , and
irritating their minds ; but that the experience of mankind had declared in favour
of moderate drinking . JOHNSON . “ Sir , I do not say it is wrong to produce self ...
I observed , that wine did some people harm , by inflaming , confusing , and
irritating their minds ; but that the experience of mankind had declared in favour
of moderate drinking . JOHNSON . “ Sir , I do not say it is wrong to produce self ...
Page 70
At another time , when somebody endeavoured to argue in favour of its being in
English , Johnson said , “ The language of the country of which a learned man
was a native , is not the language fit for his epitaph , which should be in ancient
and ...
At another time , when somebody endeavoured to argue in favour of its being in
English , Johnson said , “ The language of the country of which a learned man
was a native , is not the language fit for his epitaph , which should be in ancient
and ...
Page 71
MADAM , — You must not think me uncivil in omitting to answer the letter with
which you favoured me some time ago . I imagined it to have been written without
Mr . Boswell ' s knowledge , and therefore supposed the answer to require , what
I ...
MADAM , — You must not think me uncivil in omitting to answer the letter with
which you favoured me some time ago . I imagined it to have been written without
Mr . Boswell ' s knowledge , and therefore supposed the answer to require , what
I ...
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| Title | The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. Oxford English classics Volume 3 of The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D, James Boswell |
| Author | James Boswell |
| Publisher | Talboys & Wheeler, 1826 |
| Original from | Lyon Public Library |
| Digitized | 21 Sep 2010 |
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