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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... talked to him of some of the sayings which every body repeats , but nobody knows where to find , such as , Quos DEUS vult perdere , prius dementat ; he told me that he was once offered ten guineas to point out from whence Semel ...
... talked to him of some of the sayings which every body repeats , but nobody knows where to find , such as , Quos DEUS vult perdere , prius dementat ; he told me that he was once offered ten guineas to point out from whence Semel ...
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... talked above the capacity of some people with whom they had been in company together . ' No matter , Sir , ( said Johnson ) ; they consider it as a compliment to be talked to , as if they were wiser than they are . So true is this , Sir ...
... talked above the capacity of some people with whom they had been in company together . ' No matter , Sir , ( said Johnson ) ; they consider it as a compliment to be talked to , as if they were wiser than they are . So true is this , Sir ...
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... talked to - day a good deal of the wonderful extent and variety of London , and observed , that men of curious enquiry might see in it such modes of life as very few could even imagine . He in parti- cular recommended to us to explore ...
... talked to - day a good deal of the wonderful extent and variety of London , and observed , that men of curious enquiry might see in it such modes of life as very few could even imagine . He in parti- cular recommended to us to explore ...
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... talked of Dr. Dodd . " A friend of mine ( said he ) came to me and told me , that a lady wished to have Dodd's picture in a bracelet , and asked me for a motto . I said , I could think of no better than Currat Lex . I was very willing ...
... talked of Dr. Dodd . " A friend of mine ( said he ) came to me and told me , that a lady wished to have Dodd's picture in a bracelet , and asked me for a motto . I said , I could think of no better than Currat Lex . I was very willing ...
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... talked to them . " JOHNSON . " Nay , Sir , I should not have lived long enough to be fit to talk ; I should have been dead before I was ten years old . Depend upon it , Sir , a savage when he is hungry will not carry about with him a ...
... talked to them . " JOHNSON . " Nay , Sir , I should not have lived long enough to be fit to talk ; I should have been dead before I was ten years old . Depend upon it , Sir , a savage when he is hungry will not carry about with him a ...
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