The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.J.M. Dent and Sons Limited, 1925 |
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... opinion peculiar to himself , which he once intimated to me , seemed to wait for some secret impulse as a motive to it . " " Whenever I miss church on a Sunday , " he told Boswell at seventy , " I resolve to go another day . But I do ...
... opinion peculiar to himself , which he once intimated to me , seemed to wait for some secret impulse as a motive to it . " " Whenever I miss church on a Sunday , " he told Boswell at seventy , " I resolve to go another day . But I do ...
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... opinion that , as no man was a hypocrite in his pleasures , his choice of them really revealed his character . The revelation vouch- safed in his own case is not , however , abundantly manifested by his biographer . From his ...
... opinion that , as no man was a hypocrite in his pleasures , his choice of them really revealed his character . The revelation vouch- safed in his own case is not , however , abundantly manifested by his biographer . From his ...
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... opinions it is not surprising that , rightly or wrongly , many of the places of entertain- ment in his immediate neighbourhood are associated with his name ; and Leigh Hunt hardly exaggerates when he suggests that Johnson had probably ...
... opinions it is not surprising that , rightly or wrongly , many of the places of entertain- ment in his immediate neighbourhood are associated with his name ; and Leigh Hunt hardly exaggerates when he suggests that Johnson had probably ...
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... opinion the Publick has confirmed , was the best encouragement for me to persevere in my purpose of producing the whole of my stores . In one respect , this Work will , in some passages , be different from the former . In my " Tour ...
... opinion the Publick has confirmed , was the best encouragement for me to persevere in my purpose of producing the whole of my stores . In one respect , this Work will , in some passages , be different from the former . In my " Tour ...
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... opinion which he has given , that every man's life may be best written by himself ; had he employed in the preservation of his own history , that clearness of narration and elegance of language in which he has embalmed so many eminent ...
... opinion which he has given , that every man's life may be best written by himself ; had he employed in the preservation of his own history , that clearness of narration and elegance of language in which he has embalmed so many eminent ...
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