The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Together with A Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides, Volume 1Bickers and Son, 1874 - Authors, English |
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... tell nothing but the truth , I have still kept in my mind that the whole truth is not always to be exposed . This , however , I have managed so as to occasion no diminution of the pleasure which my book should afford ; though malignity ...
... tell nothing but the truth , I have still kept in my mind that the whole truth is not always to be exposed . This , however , I have managed so as to occasion no diminution of the pleasure which my book should afford ; though malignity ...
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... tell . My mother had some opinion that much improvement was to be had by changing I the mode of life . My uncle Harrison was a widower , and his house was kept by Sally Ford , a young woman of such sweetness of temper , that I used to ...
... tell . My mother had some opinion that much improvement was to be had by changing I the mode of life . My uncle Harrison was a widower , and his house was kept by Sally Ford , a young woman of such sweetness of temper , that I used to ...
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... tell a child , if you do thus , or thus , you will be more esteemed than your brothers or sisters . The rod pro- duces an effect which terminates in itself . A child is afraid of being whipped , and gets his task , and there's an end on ...
... tell a child , if you do thus , or thus , you will be more esteemed than your brothers or sisters . The rod pro- duces an effect which terminates in itself . A child is afraid of being whipped , and gets his task , and there's an end on ...
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... tell us . " This does not fit with Taylor's account of Holbrook as " one of the most ingenious men and best scholars of his age . " 2 " At Stourbridge , " writes Bishop Percy to Boswell , his father got him received as an assistant to ...
... tell us . " This does not fit with Taylor's account of Holbrook as " one of the most ingenious men and best scholars of his age . " 2 " At Stourbridge , " writes Bishop Percy to Boswell , his father got him received as an assistant to ...
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... tell where to find . Such was his amplitude of learning , and such his copious- ness of communication , that it may be doubted whether a day now passes , in which I have not some advantage from his friendship . " At this man's table I ...
... tell where to find . Such was his amplitude of learning , and such his copious- ness of communication , that it may be doubted whether a day now passes , in which I have not some advantage from his friendship . " At this man's table I ...
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