The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: Including a Journal of His Tour to the Hebrides, Volume 1John W. Lovell Company, 1899 - Authors, English |
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... king does not exclude a man from such society . Great kings have always been social . The king of Prussia , the only great king at present , is very social . Charles the Second , the last king of ' Johnson told Dr. Burney , that ...
... king does not exclude a man from such society . Great kings have always been social . The king of Prussia , the only great king at present , is very social . Charles the Second , the last king of ' Johnson told Dr. Burney , that ...
Page 426
... King had said it , it was to be so . It was not for me to bandy civilities with my Sovereign . " Perhaps no man who had spent his whole life in courts could have shown a more nice and dignified sense of true politeness , than Johnson ...
... King had said it , it was to be so . It was not for me to bandy civilities with my Sovereign . " Perhaps no man who had spent his whole life in courts could have shown a more nice and dignified sense of true politeness , than Johnson ...
Page 427
... King then asked him what he thought of Dr. Hill . John- son answered , that he was an ingenious man , but had no veracity ; and immediately mentioned , as an instance of it , an assertion of that writer , that he had seen objects ...
... King then asked him what he thought of Dr. Hill . John- son answered , that he was an ingenious man , but had no veracity ; and immediately mentioned , as an instance of it , an assertion of that writer , that he had seen objects ...
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