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George Birkbeck Norman Hill. PREFAC E. THOUGH I cannot say with Lord Macaulay that I was never better pleased than when at fourteen I was master of Boswell's ' Life ... says ' must the unlearned reader be surprised when he shall be told that.
George Birkbeck Norman Hill. PREFAC E. THOUGH I cannot say with Lord Macaulay that I was never better pleased than when at fourteen I was master of Boswell's ' Life ... says ' must the unlearned reader be surprised when he shall be told that.
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... says that he was placed there in the position of a commoner by a neighbouring gentleman in quality of assistant to his son in his studies , who entered as a gentleman - commoner . This statement is confirmed by Johnson's old friend , Dr ...
... says that he was placed there in the position of a commoner by a neighbouring gentleman in quality of assistant to his son in his studies , who entered as a gentleman - commoner . This statement is confirmed by Johnson's old friend , Dr ...
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... says , ' Meat he has probably little . . . . The Rev. Dr. Hall ( the Master of Pembroke forty years ago ) remarks , " As far as we can judge from a cursory view of the weekly account in the buttery - books , Johnson appears to have ...
... says , ' Meat he has probably little . . . . The Rev. Dr. Hall ( the Master of Pembroke forty years ago ) remarks , " As far as we can judge from a cursory view of the weekly account in the buttery - books , Johnson appears to have ...
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... says that when I thought to get peace and purity by outward austerities , I always chose the worst sort of food , though my place furnished me with variety . ' Mr. Carlyle , in his ' Heroes and Hero Worship , ' makes another error about ...
... says that when I thought to get peace and purity by outward austerities , I always chose the worst sort of food , though my place furnished me with variety . ' Mr. Carlyle , in his ' Heroes and Hero Worship , ' makes another error about ...
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... says that he was solicited to join in excess of riot with several who lay in the same room . ' But God gave me grace to withstand them ; and once in particular it being cold , my limbs were so benumbed by sitting alone in my study ...
... says that he was solicited to join in excess of riot with several who lay in the same room . ' But God gave me grace to withstand them ; and once in particular it being cold , my limbs were so benumbed by sitting alone in my study ...
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Page 215 - I had exhausted all the art of pleasing which a retired and uncourtly scholar can possess. I had done all that I could ; and no man is well pleased to have his all neglected, be it ever so little.
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Page 48 - John Wesley's conversation is good, but he is never at leisure. He is always obliged to go at a certain hour. This is very disagreeable to a man who loves to fold his legs and have out his talk, as I do.
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