The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: Including a Journal of His Tour to the Hebrides, Volume 3John W. Lovell Company, 1899 - Authors, English |
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... manner , with the aid of a little poetical fiction . " Come , come , don't deny it they are really national . Why , now , the Adams are as liber il- minded men as any in the world : but , I don't know how it is , all their workmen are ...
... manner , with the aid of a little poetical fiction . " Come , come , don't deny it they are really national . Why , now , the Adams are as liber il- minded men as any in the world : but , I don't know how it is , all their workmen are ...
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... manner ; but his arguments preponderated so much in favour of the benefit which a boy of good parts might receive at one of them , that I have reason to believe Mr. Murray was very much influenced by what he had heard to - day in his ...
... manner ; but his arguments preponderated so much in favour of the benefit which a boy of good parts might receive at one of them , that I have reason to believe Mr. Murray was very much influenced by what he had heard to - day in his ...
Page 258
... manner and easiness of behaviour are acquired gradually and imperceptibly . No man can say , ' I'll be genteel . ' There are ten genteel women for one genteel man , because they are more restrained . A man without some degree of ...
... manner and easiness of behaviour are acquired gradually and imperceptibly . No man can say , ' I'll be genteel . ' There are ten genteel women for one genteel man , because they are more restrained . A man without some degree of ...
Contents
CHAPTER I | 11 |
Letters to Boswell c Religious Festivals and PilgrimagesDeath of GoldsmithGreek | 40 |
CHAPTER III | 69 |
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