The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: Including a Journal of His Tour to the Hebrides, Volume 4Derby & Jackson, 1858 - Hebrides (Scotland) |
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... sometimes have composed the household of great families . I mentioned that there were a hundred in the family of the present Earl of Eglintoune's father . Dr. Johnson seeming to doubt it , I began to enumerate : " Let us see , my lord ...
... sometimes have composed the household of great families . I mentioned that there were a hundred in the family of the present Earl of Eglintoune's father . Dr. Johnson seeming to doubt it , I began to enumerate : " Let us see , my lord ...
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... Sometimes it may pro- ceed from a man's strong consciousness of his faults being observed . He knows that others would throw him down , and therefore he had better lie down softly of his own accord . " 1 This , as both Mr. Bindley and ...
... Sometimes it may pro- ceed from a man's strong consciousness of his faults being observed . He knows that others would throw him down , and therefore he had better lie down softly of his own accord . " 1 This , as both Mr. Bindley and ...
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... Sometimes it does . But the danger is , that while a man grows better pleased with himself , he may be growing less pleasing to others . Wine gives a man nothing . It neither gives him knowledge nor wit ; it only animates a man , and ...
... Sometimes it does . But the danger is , that while a man grows better pleased with himself , he may be growing less pleasing to others . Wine gives a man nothing . It neither gives him knowledge nor wit ; it only animates a man , and ...
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... sometimes gave in moments of irritation , which , let me assure them , is exquisitely painful . But it must not be erroneously supposed that he was , in the smallest degree , careless concerning any work which he undertook , or that he ...
... sometimes gave in moments of irritation , which , let me assure them , is exquisitely painful . But it must not be erroneously supposed that he was , in the smallest degree , careless concerning any work which he undertook , or that he ...
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... sometimes suffered me to talk jocularly of his group of females , and call them his Seraglio . He thus mentions them , together with honest Levett , in one of his let- ters to Mrs. Thrale : " Williams hates everybody ; Levett hates ...
... sometimes suffered me to talk jocularly of his group of females , and call them his Seraglio . He thus mentions them , together with honest Levett , in one of his let- ters to Mrs. Thrale : " Williams hates everybody ; Levett hates ...
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