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Page xxvii
Lousy disease may be put in a parenthesis.” Here Boswell reveals his method.
The obscurer Latin word was not likely to tell. The substituted one, and its
explanation, he considered, was in the spirit of what Johnson had said ,
AREAPACE.
Lousy disease may be put in a parenthesis.” Here Boswell reveals his method.
The obscurer Latin word was not likely to tell. The substituted one, and its
explanation, he considered, was in the spirit of what Johnson had said ,
AREAPACE.
Page xlvii
I have, therefore, in this work been more reserved ; and though I tell nothing but
the truth, I have still kept in my mind that the whole truth is not always to be
exposed. This, however, I have managed so as to occasion no diminution of the ...
I have, therefore, in this work been more reserved ; and though I tell nothing but
the truth, I have still kept in my mind that the whole truth is not always to be
exposed. This, however, I have managed so as to occasion no diminution of the ...
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Why such boys were sent to trouble other houses , I cannot tell . My mother had
some opinion that much improvement was to be had by changing the mode of life
. My uncle Harrison was a widower , and his house was kept by Sally Ford , a ...
Why such boys were sent to trouble other houses , I cannot tell . My mother had
some opinion that much improvement was to be had by changing the mode of life
. My uncle Harrison was a widower , and his house was kept by Sally Ford , a ...
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“I would rather (said he) have the rod to be the general terrour to all, to make
them learn, than tell a child, if you do thus, or thus, you will be more esteemed
than your brothers or sisters. The rod produces an effect which terminates in itself
.
“I would rather (said he) have the rod to be the general terrour to all, to make
them learn, than tell a child, if you do thus, or thus, you will be more esteemed
than your brothers or sisters. The rod produces an effect which terminates in itself
.
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Being told that we should ask, we informed him that we had asked, and that the
assistant would not tell us.” This does not fit with Taylor's account of Holbrook as “
one of the most ingenious men and best scholars of his age.” * “At Stourbridge ...
Being told that we should ask, we informed him that we had asked, and that the
assistant would not tell us.” This does not fit with Taylor's account of Holbrook as “
one of the most ingenious men and best scholars of his age.” * “At Stourbridge ...
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| Title | The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Together with A Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides, Volume 1 The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Together with A Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides, Samuel Johnson |
| Author | James Boswell |
| Editor | Percy Hetherington Fitzgerald |
| Edition | 2 |
| Publisher | Swan Sonnenschein, Lowrey, 1888 |
| Original from | the University of California |
| Digitized | 24 Oct 2007 |
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