The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D. Together with the Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides: James Boswell, Volume 2G. Bell, 1884 - Hebrides (Scotland) |
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... talked of the mode adopted by some to rise in the world , by courting great men , and asked him whether he had ever submitted to it . JOHNSON . Why , Sir , I never was near enough to great men , to court them . You may be prudently ...
... talked of the mode adopted by some to rise in the world , by courting great men , and asked him whether he had ever submitted to it . JOHNSON . Why , Sir , I never was near enough to great men , to court them . You may be prudently ...
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... talked to his Majesty with profound respect , but still in his firm . manly manner , with a sonorous voice , and never in that subdued tone which is commonly used at the levée and in the drawing - room . After the King withdrew ...
... talked to his Majesty with profound respect , but still in his firm . manly manner , with a sonorous voice , and never in that subdued tone which is commonly used at the levée and in the drawing - room . After the King withdrew ...
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... talked bawdy ; or that you had seen him in the cart at Tyburn , and he neither swore nor talked bawdy . And is it thus , Sir , that you presume to controvert what I have related ? " Dr. Johnson's animadversion was 66 1 Messenger Mounsey ...
... talked bawdy ; or that you had seen him in the cart at Tyburn , and he neither swore nor talked bawdy . And is it thus , Sir , that you presume to controvert what I have related ? " Dr. Johnson's animadversion was 66 1 Messenger Mounsey ...
Contents
Becomes acquainted with Mr and Mrs Thrale | 13 |
Johnsons letter to Boswell at Paris | 22 |
Conversation with His Majesty at Buckingham House 5056 | 50 |
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