The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: Including a Journal of His Tour to the Hebrides, Volume 7J. Murray, 1839 |
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... mind to suggest matter for dis- satisfaction , that I felt a sort of regret that I was so easy . I missed that awful reverence with which I used to contemplate MR . SAMUEL JOHNSON , in the complex magnitude of his literary , moral , and ...
... mind to suggest matter for dis- satisfaction , that I felt a sort of regret that I was so easy . I missed that awful reverence with which I used to contemplate MR . SAMUEL JOHNSON , in the complex magnitude of his literary , moral , and ...
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... mind grows narrow in a narrow place , whose mind is enlarged only because he has lived in a large place : but what is got by books and thinking is preserved in a narrow place as well as in a large place . A man cannot know modes of life ...
... mind grows narrow in a narrow place , whose mind is enlarged only because he has lived in a large place : but what is got by books and thinking is preserved in a narrow place as well as in a large place . A man cannot know modes of life ...
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... mind ; the use he makes of it depends upon his own free will . That a man has always the same firmness of mind , I do not say because every man feels his mind less firm at one time than another ; but I think , a man's being in a good or ...
... mind ; the use he makes of it depends upon his own free will . That a man has always the same firmness of mind , I do not say because every man feels his mind less firm at one time than another ; but I think , a man's being in a good or ...
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