The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Including a Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides, Volume 1Harper & Brothers, 1856 |
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Page 62
... spirit of his- tory , which is contrary to minute exact- ness , and of the regularity of a journal , which is inconsistent with spirit . For this reason I neither admit numbers or dates , nor reject them . bates , shall not I have ...
... spirit of his- tory , which is contrary to minute exact- ness , and of the regularity of a journal , which is inconsistent with spirit . For this reason I neither admit numbers or dates , nor reject them . bates , shall not I have ...
Page 183
... spirit , for the detection of some enornious crime . " About ten at night the gentlemen met in the chamber in which the girl , supposed to be dis- Hawk . P.437- 440 . this place , urging , that it would expose him to ridicule ; but all ...
... spirit , for the detection of some enornious crime . " About ten at night the gentlemen met in the chamber in which the girl , supposed to be dis- Hawk . P.437- 440 . this place , urging , that it would expose him to ridicule ; but all ...
Page 255
... spirit so offended with frivolous and empty devia- tions from exactness ? Whoever loads life with unnecessary scruples , sir , " continued he , " provokes the attention of others on his conduct , and incurs the censure of sin- gularity ...
... spirit so offended with frivolous and empty devia- tions from exactness ? Whoever loads life with unnecessary scruples , sir , " continued he , " provokes the attention of others on his conduct , and incurs the censure of sin- gularity ...
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