The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.Macmillan, 1912 |
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... speaking . " Action can have no effect upon reasonable minds . It may augment noise , but it never can enforce argument . If you speak to a dog , you use action ; you hold up your hand thus , because he is a brute ; and in proportion as ...
... speaking . " Action can have no effect upon reasonable minds . It may augment noise , but it never can enforce argument . If you speak to a dog , you use action ; you hold up your hand thus , because he is a brute ; and in proportion as ...
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... speak his mind freely . " JOHNSON : " Sir , a foreigner , when he sends a work from the press , ought to be on his guard against catching the error and mistaken enthusiasm of the ON CONTEMPORARY HISTORY II people among whom he happens ...
... speak his mind freely . " JOHNSON : " Sir , a foreigner , when he sends a work from the press , ought to be on his guard against catching the error and mistaken enthusiasm of the ON CONTEMPORARY HISTORY II people among whom he happens ...
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... speak . In order to try him , I took down a book , and read while he wrote ; and I favoured him , for I read more deliberately than usual . I had proceeded but a very little way , when he begged I would desist , for he could not follow ...
... speak . In order to try him , I took down a book , and read while he wrote ; and I favoured him , for I read more deliberately than usual . I had proceeded but a very little way , when he begged I would desist , for he could not follow ...
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... speak , he might as well exclaim , -Here am I with this cow and this grass ; what being can enjoy greater felicity ? " " We talked of the melancholy end of a gentleman who had destroyed himself . JOHNSON : " It was owing to imaginary ...
... speak , he might as well exclaim , -Here am I with this cow and this grass ; what being can enjoy greater felicity ? " " We talked of the melancholy end of a gentleman who had destroyed himself . JOHNSON : " It was owing to imaginary ...
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... speak , he found himself over- powered by the loud voice of Johnson , who was at the opposite end of the table , and did not perceive Goldsmith's attempt . Thus disappointed of his wish to obtain the attention of the company , Goldsmith ...
... speak , he found himself over- powered by the loud voice of Johnson , who was at the opposite end of the table , and did not perceive Goldsmith's attempt . Thus disappointed of his wish to obtain the attention of the company , Goldsmith ...
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