The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Together with A Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides, Volume 3Swan Sonnenschein, Lowrey, 1888 - Authors, English |
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... attention , as something above the usual colloquial style was expected . " Yet , though Johnson had this habit in company , when another mode was necessary , in order to investigate truth , he could descend to a language intelligible to ...
... attention , as something above the usual colloquial style was expected . " Yet , though Johnson had this habit in company , when another mode was necessary , in order to investigate truth , he could descend to a language intelligible to ...
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... attention to precision and clearness in expression was very remarkable . He disapproved of a parenthesis ; and I believe in all his voluminous writings , not half a dozen of them will be found . He never used the phrases the former and ...
... attention to precision and clearness in expression was very remarkable . He disapproved of a parenthesis ; and I believe in all his voluminous writings , not half a dozen of them will be found . He never used the phrases the former and ...
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... attention otherwise company will think them- selves neglected ; and such attention is no doubt very fatiguing . He proceeded , " I would not , however , be a stranger in my own county ; I would visit my neighbours , and receive their ...
... attention otherwise company will think them- selves neglected ; and such attention is no doubt very fatiguing . He proceeded , " I would not , however , be a stranger in my own county ; I would visit my neighbours , and receive their ...
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... attention to me . Return my have shewn " Let us , my dear , pray for one another , and consider our sufferings as notices mercifully given us to prepare ourselves for another state . " I live now but in a melancholy way . My old friend ...
... attention to me . Return my have shewn " Let us , my dear , pray for one another , and consider our sufferings as notices mercifully given us to prepare ourselves for another state . " I live now but in a melancholy way . My old friend ...
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... attention , and to amuse or instruct , ( as it happened , ) without wearying or confusing his company . He was always most perfectly clear and conspicuous ; and his language was so accurate , and his sentences so neatly constructed ...
... attention , and to amuse or instruct , ( as it happened , ) without wearying or confusing his company . He was always most perfectly clear and conspicuous ; and his language was so accurate , and his sentences so neatly constructed ...
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