The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.P.F. Collier and Son, 1901 - Hebrides (Scotland) |
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... happy to see you so ; for the newspapers told us you were very ill . " JOHNSON . " Ay , Sir , they are always telling lies of us old fellows . " Wishing to be present at more of so singular a conversation as that between two fellow ...
... happy to see you so ; for the newspapers told us you were very ill . " JOHNSON . " Ay , Sir , they are always telling lies of us old fellows . " Wishing to be present at more of so singular a conversation as that between two fellow ...
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... happy to mention another instance which I discovered of his seeking after a man of merit . Soon after the Honourable Daines Barrington had published his excellent " Observations on the Stat- utes , " Johnson waited on that worthy and ...
... happy to mention another instance which I discovered of his seeking after a man of merit . Soon after the Honourable Daines Barrington had published his excellent " Observations on the Stat- utes , " Johnson waited on that worthy and ...
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... happy man : a miser who gives himself wholly to the one pas- sion of saving . " JOHNSON . " That is flying in the face of all the world , who have called an avaricious man a miser , because he is miserable . No , Sir ; a man who both ...
... happy man : a miser who gives himself wholly to the one pas- sion of saving . " JOHNSON . " That is flying in the face of all the world , who have called an avaricious man a miser , because he is miserable . No , Sir ; a man who both ...
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... happy gift of nature . JOHNSON . " I do not think so : a man has from nature a certain portion of 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 ...
... happy gift of nature . JOHNSON . " I do not think so : a man has from nature a certain portion of 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 ...
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... happy in the arms of a chamber- maid as of a duchess . But such is the adventitious charm of fancy , that we find men who have violated the best principles of society , and ruined their fame and their fortune , that they might possess a ...
... happy in the arms of a chamber- maid as of a duchess . But such is the adventitious charm of fancy , that we find men who have violated the best principles of society , and ruined their fame and their fortune , that they might possess a ...
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