The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.Macmillan, 1912 |
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... soon undeceived us . When he said to Mrs. Williams , " Well , Dr. Goldsmith's manifesto has got into your paper ; " I asked him if Dr. Goldsmith had written it , with an air that made him see I suspected it was his , though sub- scribed ...
... soon undeceived us . When he said to Mrs. Williams , " Well , Dr. Goldsmith's manifesto has got into your paper ; " I asked him if Dr. Goldsmith had written it , with an air that made him see I suspected it was his , though sub- scribed ...
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... soon degenerate into brutes ; -they would become Monboddo's nation ; —their tails would grow . Sir , all would be losers , were all to work for all : -they would have no intel- lectual improvement . All intellectual improvement arises ...
... soon degenerate into brutes ; -they would become Monboddo's nation ; —their tails would grow . Sir , all would be losers , were all to work for all : -they would have no intel- lectual improvement . All intellectual improvement arises ...
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... soon have vanished . " BOSWELL : " Do you think , Sir , that all who commit suicide are mad ? " JOHNSON : " Sir , they are often not universally disordered in their intellects , but one passion presses so upon them , that they yield to ...
... soon have vanished . " BOSWELL : " Do you think , Sir , that all who commit suicide are mad ? " JOHNSON : " Sir , they are often not universally disordered in their intellects , but one passion presses so upon them , that they yield to ...
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... soon dark , —have outlasted Toλ [ many ] of these glaring lights which are only brighter as they haste to nothing . On Thursday , April 29 , I dined with him at General Oglethorpe's , where were Sir Joshua Reynolds , Mr. Lang- ton , Dr ...
... soon dark , —have outlasted Toλ [ many ] of these glaring lights which are only brighter as they haste to nothing . On Thursday , April 29 , I dined with him at General Oglethorpe's , where were Sir Joshua Reynolds , Mr. Lang- ton , Dr ...
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... soon after its publication , viz . 17th May , 1737 , cut his own throat ; and that it appears by Swift's Works , that the poem had been shewn to him , and received some of his corrections . Johnson had read Eugenio on his first coming ...
... soon after its publication , viz . 17th May , 1737 , cut his own throat ; and that it appears by Swift's Works , that the poem had been shewn to him , and received some of his corrections . Johnson had read Eugenio on his first coming ...
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