The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.Macmillan, 1912 |
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... acquaintances to whom you have introduced me , -for the noctes cænæque Deum , which I have enjoyed under your roof . If a work should be inscribed to one who is master of the subject of it , and whose approbation , therefore , must ...
... acquaintances to whom you have introduced me , -for the noctes cænæque Deum , which I have enjoyed under your roof . If a work should be inscribed to one who is master of the subject of it , and whose approbation , therefore , must ...
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... acquainted with him , than even most of those were who actually knew him , but could know him only partially ; whereas there is here an accumulation of intelligence from various points , by which his character is more fully understood ...
... acquainted with him , than even most of those were who actually knew him , but could know him only partially ; whereas there is here an accumulation of intelligence from various points , by which his character is more fully understood ...
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... acquainted with the nature of their task , or very negli- gent about the performance . They rarely afford any other ... acquaintance , except by his most prominent and observable particularities , and the grosser features of his mind ...
... acquainted with the nature of their task , or very negli- gent about the performance . They rarely afford any other ... acquaintance , except by his most prominent and observable particularities , and the grosser features of his mind ...
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... acquainted , agree , that no man was more nicely and minutely critical in the elegance of female dress . When I found that he saw the romantic beauties of Islam , in Derbyshire , much better than I did , I told him that he resembled an ...
... acquainted , agree , that no man was more nicely and minutely critical in the elegance of female dress . When I found that he saw the romantic beauties of Islam , in Derbyshire , much better than I did , I told him that he resembled an ...
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... acquainted with him , and has preserved a few anecdotes concerning him , regretting that he was not a more diligent collector , informs me , that " when a boy he was immoderately fond of reading romances of chivalry , and he retained ...
... acquainted with him , and has preserved a few anecdotes concerning him , regretting that he was not a more diligent collector , informs me , that " when a boy he was immoderately fond of reading romances of chivalry , and he retained ...
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