The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: Comprehending an Account of His Studies, and Numerous Works, in Chronological Order; a Series of His Epistolary Correspondence and Conversations with Many Eminent Persons; and Various Original Pieces of His Composition Never Before Published: the Whole Exhibiting a View of Literature and Literary Men in Great Britain, for Near Half a Century During which He Flourished, Volume 4C. Ewer & T. Bedlington, 1824 - Authors, English |
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... lived in great intimacy with him , shewn him much kindness , and even relieved him from a spunging - house , having afterwards fallen into bad cir- cumstances , was one day , when Johnson was at dinner with him , seized for debt , and ...
... lived in great intimacy with him , shewn him much kindness , and even relieved him from a spunging - house , having afterwards fallen into bad cir- cumstances , was one day , when Johnson was at dinner with him , seized for debt , and ...
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... lived in his household ; that there he found the rigid fasting prescribed by the church very severe upon him ; that this disposed him to reconsider the controversy , and having then seen that he was in the wrong , he return- ed to ...
... lived in his household ; that there he found the rigid fasting prescribed by the church very severe upon him ; that this disposed him to reconsider the controversy , and having then seen that he was in the wrong , he return- ed to ...
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... lived to read fused by successive relaters . " 1 Do not what Sir John Hawkins and Mrs. Piozzì had related concerning himself , how much would he have found his observation illustrated . He was indeed so much im- pressed with the ...
... lived to read fused by successive relaters . " 1 Do not what Sir John Hawkins and Mrs. Piozzì had related concerning himself , how much would he have found his observation illustrated . He was indeed so much im- pressed with the ...
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... lived in a large place : but what is got by books and thinking is preserved in a narrow place as well as in a large place . A man can- not know modes of life as well in Minorca as in London ; 29 but he may study mathematicks as well in ...
... lived in a large place : but what is got by books and thinking is preserved in a narrow place as well as in a large place . A man can- not know modes of life as well in Minorca as in London ; 29 but he may study mathematicks as well in ...
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... lived , would have deserved it better . He had , indeed , been at no pains to fill his mind with knowledge . He transplant- ed it from one place to another : and it did not settle in his mind ; so he could not tell what was in his own ...
... lived , would have deserved it better . He had , indeed , been at no pains to fill his mind with knowledge . He transplant- ed it from one place to another : and it did not settle in his mind ; so he could not tell what was in his own ...
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