The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: Including a Journal of His Tour to the Hebrides, Volume 2John W. Lovell Company, 1899 - Authors, English |
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... conversation usually threat- ened and announced more than it performed ; that he fed you with a continual renovation of hope , to end in a constant succession of disappointment . ་ " When exasperated by contradiction , he was apt to ...
... conversation usually threat- ened and announced more than it performed ; that he fed you with a continual renovation of hope , to end in a constant succession of disappointment . ་ " When exasperated by contradiction , he was apt to ...
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... conversation , I do not wonder ; because in conversation praise is instantly reverberated . " We talked of change of manners . Dr. Johnson observed , that our drinking less than our ancestors was owing to the change from ale to wine ...
... conversation , I do not wonder ; because in conversation praise is instantly reverberated . " We talked of change of manners . Dr. Johnson observed , that our drinking less than our ancestors was owing to the change from ale to wine ...
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... conversation . One of them asked Dr. Johnson how he liked the Highlands . The question seemed to irritate him , for he answered , " How , Sir , can you ask me what obliges me to speak unfavourably of a country where I have been ...
... conversation . One of them asked Dr. Johnson how he liked the Highlands . The question seemed to irritate him , for he answered , " How , Sir , can you ask me what obliges me to speak unfavourably of a country where I have been ...
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