The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D: Including A Journal of His Tour to the Hebrides, Volume 2A. V. Blake, 1844 |
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... publick places less than myself ; and for the first six years after my mar- riage , as you know , I never set my foot in any theatre or place of entertainment at all . What most amazed me about this regatta , however , was the mixture ...
... publick places less than myself ; and for the first six years after my mar- riage , as you know , I never set my foot in any theatre or place of entertainment at all . What most amazed me about this regatta , however , was the mixture ...
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... publick any thing of a place better known to many of my readers than to myself . We can talk of it when we meet . " I shall go next week to Streatham , from whence I purpose to send a parcel of the History ' every post . Concerning the ...
... publick any thing of a place better known to many of my readers than to myself . We can talk of it when we meet . " I shall go next week to Streatham , from whence I purpose to send a parcel of the History ' every post . Concerning the ...
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... publick than in pri- vate schools , from emulation ; there is the collision of mind with mind , or the radia- tion of many minds pointing to one centre . Though few boys make their own exer- cises , yet if a good exercise is given up ...
... publick than in pri- vate schools , from emulation ; there is the collision of mind with mind , or the radia- tion of many minds pointing to one centre . Though few boys make their own exer- cises , yet if a good exercise is given up ...
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... publick : but that his mind was still ardent , and fraught with generous wishes to attain to still higher de- grees of literary excellence , is proved by his private notes of this year , which I shall insert in their proper place . 1 ...
... publick : but that his mind was still ardent , and fraught with generous wishes to attain to still higher de- grees of literary excellence , is proved by his private notes of this year , which I shall insert in their proper place . 1 ...
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... publick , I know not ; but I have no reason to be dis- couraged . The lecturer was surely in the right , who , though he saw his audience slinking away , refused to quit the chair , while Plato staid . - I am , reverend sir , your most ...
... publick , I know not ; but I have no reason to be dis- couraged . The lecturer was surely in the right , who , though he saw his audience slinking away , refused to quit the chair , while Plato staid . - I am , reverend sir , your most ...
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