The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D., Volume 1Talboys & Wheeler, 1826 - Authors, English |
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... acquaintances to whom you have introduced me for the " noctes cœnæque Deum , " which I have enjoyed under your roof . If a work should be inscribed to one who is master of the subject of it , and whose approbation , therefore , must ...
... acquaintances to whom you have introduced me for the " noctes cœnæque Deum , " which I have enjoyed under your roof . If a work should be inscribed to one who is master of the subject of it , and whose approbation , therefore , must ...
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... acquainted with the nature of their task , or very negligent about the performance . They rarely afford any other account than might be collected from publick papers , but imagine ... acquaintance , except by his DR . JOHNSON . 7.
... acquainted with the nature of their task , or very negligent about the performance . They rarely afford any other account than might be collected from publick papers , but imagine ... acquaintance , except by his DR . JOHNSON . 7.
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James Boswell. few can portray a living acquaintance , except by his most prominent and observable particularities , and the grosser features of his mind ; and it may be easily imagined how much of this little knowledge may be lost in ...
James Boswell. few can portray a living acquaintance , except by his most prominent and observable particularities , and the grosser features of his mind ; and it may be easily imagined how much of this little knowledge may be lost in ...
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... acquainted agree , that no man was more nicely and minutely critical in the elegance of female dress . When I found that he saw the romantick beauties of Islam , in Derbyshire , much better than I did , I told him that he resembled an ...
... acquainted agree , that no man was more nicely and minutely critical in the elegance of female dress . When I found that he saw the romantick beauties of Islam , in Derbyshire , much better than I did , I told him that he resembled an ...
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... acquaintance with books was great , and what he did not immediately know , he could , at least , tell where to find . Such was his ampli- tude of learning , and such his copiousness of communica- tion , that it may be doubted whether a ...
... acquaintance with books was great , and what he did not immediately know , he could , at least , tell where to find . Such was his ampli- tude of learning , and such his copiousness of communica- tion , that it may be doubted whether a ...
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