The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.Heritage Press, 1963 - Authors, English |
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... truth , there was not the least reality in any of the suppositions ; so that when the vapours were dispelled , they were convinced of the delusion . To Johnson , whose supreme enjoyment was the exercise of his reason , the disturbance ...
... truth , there was not the least reality in any of the suppositions ; so that when the vapours were dispelled , they were convinced of the delusion . To Johnson , whose supreme enjoyment was the exercise of his reason , the disturbance ...
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James Boswell Hester Lynch Piozzi, Edward Garland Fletcher. This circumstance , the truth of which must strike every critical reader , has been so happily enforced by Mr. Courtenay , in his ' Moral and ... truth of which must strike every ...
James Boswell Hester Lynch Piozzi, Edward Garland Fletcher. This circumstance , the truth of which must strike every critical reader , has been so happily enforced by Mr. Courtenay , in his ' Moral and ... truth of which must strike every ...
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... Truth will not afford sufficient food to their vanity ; so they have betaken themselves to errour . Truth , Sir , is a cow which will yield such people no more milk , and so they are gone to milk the bull . If I could have allowed ...
... Truth will not afford sufficient food to their vanity ; so they have betaken themselves to errour . Truth , Sir , is a cow which will yield such people no more milk , and so they are gone to milk the bull . If I could have allowed ...
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