The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.J. M. Dent, 1925 |
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... mind , that it hardly admitted or deserved an answer ; by the second I was much better pleased ; and the pleasure will still be increased by such a narrative of the progress of your studies , as may evince the continuance of an equal ...
... mind , that it hardly admitted or deserved an answer ; by the second I was much better pleased ; and the pleasure will still be increased by such a narrative of the progress of your studies , as may evince the continuance of an equal ...
Page 378
... minds for the approach of death ? " - Here I am sensible I was in the wrong , to bring before his view what he ever looked upon with horrour ; for although when in a celestial frame of mind in his " Vanity of Human Wishes , " he has ...
... minds for the approach of death ? " - Here I am sensible I was in the wrong , to bring before his view what he ever looked upon with horrour ; for although when in a celestial frame of mind in his " Vanity of Human Wishes , " he has ...
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... 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 ...
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