The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.W. P. Ninno, Hay & Mitchell, 1890 - 562 pages |
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... lived conscientiously , in faith , it was Samuel Johnson . He sought to do everything for a good purpose ; no man more sincerely lamented his coming short of the ideal he placed before himself . If struggling to overcome besetting sins ...
... lived conscientiously , in faith , it was Samuel Johnson . He sought to do everything for a good purpose ; no man more sincerely lamented his coming short of the ideal he placed before himself . If struggling to overcome besetting sins ...
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... lived Samuel Johnson , and as he lived , he wrote . And if veracity and freedom from all kinds of affectation constitute heroism , it would be difficult to find a truer hero among men of letters than Johnson . As a literary man ...
... lived Samuel Johnson , and as he lived , he wrote . And if veracity and freedom from all kinds of affectation constitute heroism , it would be difficult to find a truer hero among men of letters than Johnson . As a literary man ...
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... lived in great intimacy with him . There is in the British Museum a letter from Bishop Warburton to Dr. Birch , on the subject of biography ; which , though I am aware it may expose me to a charge of artfully raising the value of my own ...
... lived in great intimacy with him . There is in the British Museum a letter from Bishop Warburton to Dr. Birch , on the subject of biography ; which , though I am aware it may expose me to a charge of artfully raising the value of my own ...
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... lived about five hundred years ago , explains that passage in the first Psalm , " His leaf also shall not wither , " from rabbins yet older than himself , thus : That " even the idle talk , " so he expresses it , " of a good man ought ...
... lived about five hundred years ago , explains that passage in the first Psalm , " His leaf also shall not wither , " from rabbins yet older than himself , thus : That " even the idle talk , " so he expresses it , " of a good man ought ...
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... lived , it had been good luck , For then we'd had an odd one . ' There is surely internal evidence that this little composition combines in it what no child of three years old could produce , without an extension of its faculties by ...
... lived , it had been good luck , For then we'd had an odd one . ' There is surely internal evidence that this little composition combines in it what no child of three years old could produce , without an extension of its faculties by ...
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