The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: Together with a Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides, Volume 2G. Allen & Unwin, 1924 |
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... mean genteel moral characters . " " I think , ( said Hicky , ) gentility and morality are inseparable . " BOSWELL . " By no means , Sir . The genteelest • characters are often the most immoral . Does not Lord Chesterfield give precepts ...
... mean genteel moral characters . " " I think , ( said Hicky , ) gentility and morality are inseparable . " BOSWELL . " By no means , Sir . The genteelest • characters are often the most immoral . Does not Lord Chesterfield give precepts ...
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... mean real authentick history . That certain Kings reigned , and certain battles were fought , we can depend upon as true ; but all the colouring , all the philosophy , of history is conjecture . ” BOSWELL . " Then , Sir , you would ...
... mean real authentick history . That certain Kings reigned , and certain battles were fought , we can depend upon as true ; but all the colouring , all the philosophy , of history is conjecture . ” BOSWELL . " Then , Sir , you would ...
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... mean . Johnson , with all the high spirit of a Roman senator , exclaimed , " He resolved wisely and nobly to be sure ... means of rising in the world . With this sole view do men engage in politicks , and their whole conduct pro- ceeds ...
... mean . Johnson , with all the high spirit of a Roman senator , exclaimed , " He resolved wisely and nobly to be sure ... means of rising in the world . With this sole view do men engage in politicks , and their whole conduct pro- ceeds ...
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... means of acquiring . Nobody imagines that an University is to have at once two hundred poets ; but it should be able to shew two hundred scholars . Peiresc's death was lamented , I think , in forty languages . And I would have at every ...
... means of acquiring . Nobody imagines that an University is to have at once two hundred poets ; but it should be able to shew two hundred scholars . Peiresc's death was lamented , I think , in forty languages . And I would have at every ...
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... means TO THE SAME . " Paris , Oct. 22 , 1775 . " DEAR SIR , -We are still here , commonly very busy in looking about us . We have been to - day at Versailles . You have seen it , and I shall not describe it . We came yesterday from ...
... means TO THE SAME . " Paris , Oct. 22 , 1775 . " DEAR SIR , -We are still here , commonly very busy in looking about us . We have been to - day at Versailles . You have seen it , and I shall not describe it . We came yesterday from ...
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