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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... nature , may in one respect be assimilated to the Odyssey . Amidst a thousand entertaining and instructive episodes the Hero is never long out of sight ; for they are all in some degree connected with him ; and HE , in the whole course ...
... nature , may in one respect be assimilated to the Odyssey . Amidst a thousand entertaining and instructive episodes the Hero is never long out of sight ; for they are all in some degree connected with him ; and HE , in the whole course ...
Page 281
... nature , fatherhood , nor wisdom . It is the practice of good - nature to overlook faults which have already , by the consequences , punished the delinquent . It is natural for a father to think more favourably than others of his ...
... nature , fatherhood , nor wisdom . It is the practice of good - nature to overlook faults which have already , by the consequences , punished the delinquent . It is natural for a father to think more favourably than others of his ...
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... Nature poured all that we want into our hands . A few , if they were left thus to them- selves , would , perhaps ... natural curiosities . The new world must have many vegetables and animals with which philosophers are but little ...
... Nature poured all that we want into our hands . A few , if they were left thus to them- selves , would , perhaps ... natural curiosities . The new world must have many vegetables and animals with which philosophers are but little ...
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