The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.P.F. Collier and Son, 1901 - Hebrides (Scotland) |
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... obliging to me , and who lived with Dr. Johnson in as easy a manner as almost any of his very numerous acquaintance . 2 Mr. Edwards had said to me aside , that Dr. Johnson should have been of a profession . I repeated the remark to ...
... obliging to me , and who lived with Dr. Johnson in as easy a manner as almost any of his very numerous acquaintance . 2 Mr. Edwards had said to me aside , that Dr. Johnson should have been of a profession . I repeated the remark to ...
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... obliged to tell her , that you would be in as respectable a situation in my house as in hers . Sir , the insolence of wealth will creep out . " BOSWELL . " She has a little both of the insolence of wealth and the conceit of parts ...
... obliged to tell her , that you would be in as respectable a situation in my house as in hers . Sir , the insolence of wealth will creep out . " BOSWELL . " She has a little both of the insolence of wealth and the conceit of parts ...
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... obliged to speak the truth ; so that what he says is not considered as his opinion ; yet he has said it , and cannot retract it ; and this author , when mankind are hunting him with a canister at his tail , can say , ' I would not have ...
... obliged to speak the truth ; so that what he says is not considered as his opinion ; yet he has said it , and cannot retract it ; and this author , when mankind are hunting him with a canister at his tail , can say , ' I would not have ...
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... obliged to drink or do anything else that may happen to be agreeable to the company where we are . " LANGTON . " By the same rule , you must join with a gang of cut - purses . ' JOHNSON . " Yes , Sir ; but yet we must do justice to wine ...
... obliged to drink or do anything else that may happen to be agreeable to the company where we are . " LANGTON . " By the same rule , you must join with a gang of cut - purses . ' JOHNSON . " Yes , Sir ; but yet we must do justice to wine ...
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... obliging as to give me the following account of the cause of this quarrel : " Boswell , one day at Sir Joshua's table , chose to pronounce a high - flown pane- gyric on the wits of Queen Anne's reign , and exclaimed , ' How delightful ...
... obliging as to give me the following account of the cause of this quarrel : " Boswell , one day at Sir Joshua's table , chose to pronounce a high - flown pane- gyric on the wits of Queen Anne's reign , and exclaimed , ' How delightful ...
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