The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: Including a Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides, Volume 3G. Dearborn, 1835 |
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... speak in public ? " JOHNSON . " Because there may be other rea sons for a man's not speaking in public than want of resolution : hə may have nothing to say ( laughing ) . Whereas , Sir , you know ccu rage is reckoned the greatest of all ...
... speak in public ? " JOHNSON . " Because there may be other rea sons for a man's not speaking in public than want of resolution : hə may have nothing to say ( laughing ) . Whereas , Sir , you know ccu rage is reckoned the greatest of all ...
Page 161
... speak Freuch , but talked Latin , though his excellency did not understand it , owing , perhaps , to Johnson's English pronuncia- tion : yet upon another occasion he was observed to speak French to a Frenchman of high rank , who spoke ...
... speak Freuch , but talked Latin , though his excellency did not understand it , owing , perhaps , to Johnson's English pronuncia- tion : yet upon another occasion he was observed to speak French to a Frenchman of high rank , who spoke ...
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... speak of her intellectual powers in a strain of panegyric as excessive as his former depreciation . Miss Reynolds relates , that she had heard him speak of Mrs. Montagu in terma of high admiration . " Sir , " he would say , " that lady ...
... speak of her intellectual powers in a strain of panegyric as excessive as his former depreciation . Miss Reynolds relates , that she had heard him speak of Mrs. Montagu in terma of high admiration . " Sir , " he would say , " that lady ...
Contents
CHAPTER I | 11 |
Letters to Boswell c Religious Festivals and PilgrimagesDeath of GoldsmithGreek | 40 |
CHAPTER III | 69 |
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