The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.P.F. Collier and Son, 1901 - Hebrides (Scotland) |
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... wish I had continued at college . " JOHNSON . " Why do you wish that , Sir ? " EDWARDS . " Because I think I should have had a much easier life than mine has been . I should have been a parson , and had a good living , like Bloxam1 and ...
... wish I had continued at college . " JOHNSON . " Why do you wish that , Sir ? " EDWARDS . " Because I think I should have had a much easier life than mine has been . I should have been a parson , and had a good living , like Bloxam1 and ...
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... wish to make my relations or friends feel the benefit of it . " This interview confirmed my opinion of Johnson's most humane and benevolent heart . His cordial and placid behaviour to an old fellow collegian , a man so different from ...
... wish to make my relations or friends feel the benefit of it . " This interview confirmed my opinion of Johnson's most humane and benevolent heart . His cordial and placid behaviour to an old fellow collegian , a man so different from ...
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... wish to be better known to you . " Thus began an acquaintance , which was continued with mutual re- gard as long as Johnson lived . Talking of a recent seditious delinquent , ' he said , " They should set him in the pillory , that he ...
... wish to be better known to you . " Thus began an acquaintance , which was continued with mutual re- gard as long as Johnson lived . Talking of a recent seditious delinquent , ' he said , " They should set him in the pillory , that he ...
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... wish to have the arguments for Christianity always in readiness , that my religious faith might be as firm and clear as any proposition whatever ; so that I need not be under the least uneasiness when it should be attacked . JOHNSON ...
... wish to have the arguments for Christianity always in readiness , that my religious faith might be as firm and clear as any proposition whatever ; so that I need not be under the least uneasiness when it should be attacked . JOHNSON ...
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... wish to sacrifice himself to such a man . If he must always have somebody to drink with him , he should buy a slave , and then he would be sure to have it . They who submit to drink as another pleases , make themselves his slaves ...
... wish to sacrifice himself to such a man . If he must always have somebody to drink with him , he should buy a slave , and then he would be sure to have it . They who submit to drink as another pleases , make themselves his slaves ...
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