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 xvi
... whole history of the human intellect so singular a phenomenon as this book . Many of the greatest men that ever fived have written biography - Boswell has beaten them all . This book re- sembles nothing so much as the conversation of ...
... whole history of the human intellect so singular a phenomenon as this book . Many of the greatest men that ever fived have written biography - Boswell has beaten them all . This book re- sembles nothing so much as the conversation of ...
Page xxvi
... whole , you perceived all the shades which mingled in the grand composition ; all the little peculiarities and slight blemishes . which marked the literary Colossus . Your very warm commen- dation of the specimen which I gave in my ...
... whole , you perceived all the shades which mingled in the grand composition ; all the little peculiarities and slight blemishes . which marked the literary Colossus . Your very warm commen- dation of the specimen which I gave in my ...
Page 281
... whole are not large , and of the whole but a small part is trouble- some . Small debts are like small shot ; they are rattling on every side , and can scarcely be escaped without a wound : great debts are like cannon ; of loud noise ...
... whole are not large , and of the whole but a small part is trouble- some . Small debts are like small shot ; they are rattling on every side , and can scarcely be escaped without a wound : great debts are like cannon ; of loud noise ...
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