The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: Together with a Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides, Volume 3G. Allen & Unwin, 1924 |
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... young girl , struck by his extra- ordinary motions , said to him , ' Pray , Dr. Johnson , why do you make such strange gestures ? From bad habit , ( he replied . ) Do you , my dear , take care to guard against bad habits . ' This I was ...
... young girl , struck by his extra- ordinary motions , said to him , ' Pray , Dr. Johnson , why do you make such strange gestures ? From bad habit , ( he replied . ) Do you , my dear , take care to guard against bad habits . ' This I was ...
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... young gentleman of good family . ' Sir , when I heard of him last , he was running about town shooting cats . ' And then in a sort of kindly reverie , he bethought himself of his own favourite cat , and said , ' But Hodge shan't be shot ...
... young gentleman of good family . ' Sir , when I heard of him last , he was running about town shooting cats . ' And then in a sort of kindly reverie , he bethought himself of his own favourite cat , and said , ' But Hodge shan't be shot ...
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... young rascal . No one in Ire- land wears even the mask of incorruption . No one professes to do for sixpence what he can get a shilling for doing . Set sail and see where the winds and the waves will carry you . Every day will improve ...
... young rascal . No one in Ire- land wears even the mask of incorruption . No one professes to do for sixpence what he can get a shilling for doing . Set sail and see where the winds and the waves will carry you . Every day will improve ...
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... young . " BOSWELL . " Is not a good garden a very common thing in England , Sir ? " JOHNSON . " Not so common , Sir , as you imagine . In Lincolnshire there is hardly an orchard ; in Staffordshire very little fruit . " BOSWELL . " Has ...
... young . " BOSWELL . " Is not a good garden a very common thing in England , Sir ? " JOHNSON . " Not so common , Sir , as you imagine . In Lincolnshire there is hardly an orchard ; in Staffordshire very little fruit . " BOSWELL . " Has ...
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... young Mr. Burke . He said , " It is strange that there should be so little reading in the world , and so much writing . People in general do not willingly read , if they can have any thing else to amuse them . There must be an external ...
... young Mr. Burke . He said , " It is strange that there should be so little reading in the world , and so much writing . People in general do not willingly read , if they can have any thing else to amuse them . There must be an external ...
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