Boswell's Life of Johnson: Including Boswell's Journal of a Tour of the Hebrides, and Johnson's Diary of A Journey Into North Wales, Volume 1Bigelow, Brown & Company, Incorporated, 1799 |
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... the volumes bulky beyond all reason . A more I See post , ii . 39 , 486–8 , 504 . See post , iv . 486 . 3 Correspondence of Edmund Burke , ii . 425 . favourable Preface . xxvii favourable opportunity may come . I have.
... the volumes bulky beyond all reason . A more I See post , ii . 39 , 486–8 , 504 . See post , iv . 486 . 3 Correspondence of Edmund Burke , ii . 425 . favourable Preface . xxvii favourable opportunity may come . I have.
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... reasons why these narratives are often written by such as were not likely to give much instruc- tion or delight , and why most accounts of particular persons are barren and useless . If a life be delayed till interest and envy are at an ...
... reasons why these narratives are often written by such as were not likely to give much instruc- tion or delight , and why most accounts of particular persons are barren and useless . If a life be delayed till interest and envy are at an ...
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... reason to doubt . For , there is no instance of any man , whose history has been minutely related , that did not in every part of life discover the same proportion of intellectual vigour ' . ' In all such investigations it is certainly ...
... reason to doubt . For , there is no instance of any man , whose history has been minutely related , that did not in every part of life discover the same proportion of intellectual vigour ' . ' In all such investigations it is certainly ...
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... reason that Boswell said that Johnson should have been taken to Rome ; though indeed it was not till some years after he was ' touched ' by Queen Anne that the Pretender dwelt there . The Hanoverian kings never ' touched . ' The service ...
... reason that Boswell said that Johnson should have been taken to Rome ; though indeed it was not till some years after he was ' touched ' by Queen Anne that the Pretender dwelt there . The Hanoverian kings never ' touched . ' The service ...
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... reason without eclipsing it , it requires so much nicety to exhibit that Addison seems to have been deterred from prosecuting his own design . ' Johnson's Works , vii . 431 . Writing in his old age to Hector , he said , - My health has ...
... reason without eclipsing it , it requires so much nicety to exhibit that Addison seems to have been deterred from prosecuting his own design . ' Johnson's Works , vii . 431 . Writing in his old age to Hector , he said , - My health has ...
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