The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.J. M. Dent, 1925 |
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... look for the lucidus ordo , where there is neither end or object , design or moral , nec certa recurrit imago . ' " Being asked by a young nobleman , what was become of the gallantry and military spirit of the old English nobility , he ...
... look for the lucidus ordo , where there is neither end or object , design or moral , nec certa recurrit imago . ' " Being asked by a young nobleman , what was become of the gallantry and military spirit of the old English nobility , he ...
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... look back , I am utterly unable to discover : but human moments are stolen away by a thousand petty impediments which leave no trace behind them . I have been afflicted , through the whole Christmas , with the general disorder , of ...
... look back , I am utterly unable to discover : but human moments are stolen away by a thousand petty impediments which leave no trace behind them . I have been afflicted , through the whole Christmas , with the general disorder , of ...
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James Boswell. windows that look to Bedlam , than you think of death by having windows that look to a church - yard . " MRS . BURNEY . " We may look to a church - yard , Sir ; for it is right that we should be kept in mind of death ...
James Boswell. windows that look to Bedlam , than you think of death by having windows that look to a church - yard . " MRS . BURNEY . " We may look to a church - yard , Sir ; for it is right that we should be kept in mind of death ...
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