The Life of Samuel Johnson: Including a Journal of His Tour to the Hebrides. To which are Added, Volume 4J. Murray, 1835 |
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... gave us some hopes that you might prevail with Mr. Johnson to make out that excursion to Scotland , with the expectation of which we have long flattered ourselves . If he could order matters so as to pass some time in Edinburgh , about ...
... gave us some hopes that you might prevail with Mr. Johnson to make out that excursion to Scotland , with the expectation of which we have long flattered ourselves . If he could order matters so as to pass some time in Edinburgh , about ...
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... gave him an extraordinary advantage in arguing ; for he could reason close or wide , as he saw best for the moment . He could , when he chose it , be the greatest sophist that ever wielded a weapon in the schools of declamation , but he ...
... gave him an extraordinary advantage in arguing ; for he could reason close or wide , as he saw best for the moment . He could , when he chose it , be the greatest sophist that ever wielded a weapon in the schools of declamation , but he ...
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... gave a gloomy cast to his whole course of thinking : yet , though grave and awful in his deportment , when he thought it necessary or proper , he frequently indulged him- self in pleasantry and sportive sallies . He was prone to ...
... gave a gloomy cast to his whole course of thinking : yet , though grave and awful in his deportment , when he thought it necessary or proper , he frequently indulged him- self in pleasantry and sportive sallies . He was prone to ...
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... gave way to such habits , which proves that they were not involun- tary . " I still , however , think , that these gestures were invo- luntary ; for surely , had not that been the case , he would have restrained them in the public ...
... gave way to such habits , which proves that they were not involun- tary . " I still , however , think , that these gestures were invo- luntary ; for surely , had not that been the case , he would have restrained them in the public ...
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... gave the advantage to him who is in the right . " We sat till near two in the morning , having chatted a good while after my wife left us . She had insisted , that , to show all respect to the sage , she would give up her own bedchamber ...
... gave the advantage to him who is in the right . " We sat till near two in the morning , having chatted a good while after my wife left us . She had insisted , that , to show all respect to the sage , she would give up her own bedchamber ...
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