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 2Office of the National Illustrated Library, 1851 |
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... learned ; in which , from all that I have observed of Artemisias , ' I humbly differed from him . That a woman should be sensible and well informed , I allow to be a great advantage ; and think that Sir Thomas Overbury , in his rude ...
... learned ; in which , from all that I have observed of Artemisias , ' I humbly differed from him . That a woman should be sensible and well informed , I allow to be a great advantage ; and think that Sir Thomas Overbury , in his rude ...
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... learned and judicious writer has not accurately distinguished the deficiencies and demands of the different conditions of human life , which , from a degree of savageness and inde- pendence , in which all laws are vain , passes or may ...
... learned and judicious writer has not accurately distinguished the deficiencies and demands of the different conditions of human life , which , from a degree of savageness and inde- pendence , in which all laws are vain , passes or may ...
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... learned there ; so that what the boys get at one end they lose at the other . " " More is learned in public than in private schools from emulation ; there is the collision of mind with mind , or the radiation of many minds pointing to ...
... learned there ; so that what the boys get at one end they lose at the other . " " More is learned in public than in private schools from emulation ; there is the collision of mind with mind , or the radiation of many minds pointing to ...
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Frontispiece Johnsons interview with George III | 6 |
Johnsons fit of laughter at the Temple Gate from an original drawing 170 | 7 |
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