Life of Samuel Johnson LL.D.1952 |
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... honour , is peculiar to the great , or at least to the wealthy ; but an opportunity now offers for almost every individual to secure the praise of paying a just regard to the illustrious dead , united with the pleasure of doing good to ...
... honour , is peculiar to the great , or at least to the wealthy ; but an opportunity now offers for almost every individual to secure the praise of paying a just regard to the illustrious dead , united with the pleasure of doing good to ...
Page 87
... honour to a better society , for they had that charity which might well make their failings be forgotten , and with which the whole Christian world might wish for communion . They were pure from all the heresies of an age , to which ...
... honour to a better society , for they had that charity which might well make their failings be forgotten , and with which the whole Christian world might wish for communion . They were pure from all the heresies of an age , to which ...
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... honour to my great friend , I shall en- tirely disregard any invidious suggestions , that as I in some degree participate in the honour , I have , at the same time , the gratification of my own vanity in view . TO JAMES BOSWELL , ESQ ...
... honour to my great friend , I shall en- tirely disregard any invidious suggestions , that as I in some degree participate in the honour , I have , at the same time , the gratification of my own vanity in view . TO JAMES BOSWELL , ESQ ...
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