The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Including a Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides, Volume 1Harper & Brothers, 1856 |
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... sure , sir , there are ; but they don't know it . There is no being so poor and so contempt- ible , who does not think there is somebody still poorer and still more contemptible . " As my stay in London at this time was very short , I ...
... sure , sir , there are ; but they don't know it . There is no being so poor and so contempt- ible , who does not think there is somebody still poorer and still more contemptible . " As my stay in London at this time was very short , I ...
Page 399
... sure of him . I would fight with a dirk cannot make fire but in proportion as he against Rorie More's sword . I could ward has fuel . He cannot coin guineas but in off a blow with a dirk , and then run in upon proportion as he has gold ...
... sure of him . I would fight with a dirk cannot make fire but in proportion as he against Rorie More's sword . I could ward has fuel . He cannot coin guineas but in off a blow with a dirk , and then run in upon proportion as he has gold ...
Page 504
... sure you were a man of a good heart , and a candid man , and seemed to hope he should be able to convince you of the antiquity of a good proportion of the poems of Ossian . After all that has passed , I think the matter is capable of ...
... sure you were a man of a good heart , and a candid man , and seemed to hope he should be able to convince you of the antiquity of a good proportion of the poems of Ossian . After all that has passed , I think the matter is capable of ...
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