The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.J. M. Dent & Company, 1931 |
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... mind ; the use he makes of it depends upon his own free will . That a man has always the same firmness of mind , I do not say ; because every man feels his mind less firm at one time than another ; but I think , a man's being in a good ...
... mind ; the use he makes of it depends upon his own free will . That a man has always the same firmness of mind , I do not say ; because every man feels his mind less firm at one time than another ; but I think , a man's being in a good ...
Page 548
... mind , the other the nose of the mind . A young gentleman present took up the argument against him and maintained that no man ever thinks of the nose of the mind , not adverting that though that figurative sense seems strange to us , as ...
... mind , the other the nose of the mind . A young gentleman present took up the argument against him and maintained that no man ever thinks of the nose of the mind , not adverting that though that figurative sense seems strange to us , as ...
Page 576
... mind from the uneasy reflection of delaying what he ought to do . When in the country , notwithstanding the accumulation of illness which he endured , his mind did not lose its powers . He translated an Ode of Horace , which is printed ...
... mind from the uneasy reflection of delaying what he ought to do . When in the country , notwithstanding the accumulation of illness which he endured , his mind did not lose its powers . He translated an Ode of Horace , which is printed ...
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