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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... tell me , This was , in fact , a most I told him , I thought it a very sonorous hexameter . I did not tell him , it was not in the Virgilian style . He much regretted that his first tutor was dead ; for whom he seemed to retain the ...
... tell me , This was , in fact , a most I told him , I thought it a very sonorous hexameter . I did not tell him , it was not in the Virgilian style . He much regretted that his first tutor was dead ; for whom he seemed to retain the ...
Page 349
... tell a lie for me , have I not reason to appre- hend that he will tell many lies for himself ? " I am , however , satis- fied that every servant , of any degree of intelligence , understands saying his master is not at home , not at all ...
... tell a lie for me , have I not reason to appre- hend that he will tell many lies for himself ? " I am , however , satis- fied that every servant , of any degree of intelligence , understands saying his master is not at home , not at all ...
Page 427
... telling an untruth , but telling it clumsily ; for , if that be the case , every one who can look through a microscope ... tell the world no more than he knew , he might have been a very considerable man , and needed not to have recourse ...
... telling an untruth , but telling it clumsily ; for , if that be the case , every one who can look through a microscope ... tell the world no more than he knew , he might have been a very considerable man , and needed not to have recourse ...
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