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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Page 167
... means he had attained his extraordinary accuracy and flow of language . He told him , that he had early laid it down as a fixed rule to do his best on every occasion , and in every company : to impart whatever he knew in the most ...
... means he had attained his extraordinary accuracy and flow of language . He told him , that he had early laid it down as a fixed rule to do his best on every occasion , and in every company : to impart whatever he knew in the most ...
Page 256
... mean pen , but that , at least , one would be found to retort . Accord ingly , this unjust and sarcastic epitaph was met in the same public field by an answer , in terms by no means soft , and such as wanton provocation only could ...
... mean pen , but that , at least , one would be found to retort . Accord ingly , this unjust and sarcastic epitaph was met in the same public field by an answer , in terms by no means soft , and such as wanton provocation only could ...
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... means niggardly , his attention to what was generally right was so minute , that having observed at one of the stages that I ostentatiously gave a shilling to the coach man , when the custom was for each passenger to give only sixpence ...
... means niggardly , his attention to what was generally right was so minute , that having observed at one of the stages that I ostentatiously gave a shilling to the coach man , when the custom was for each passenger to give only sixpence ...
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