The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D., Volume 1Talboys and Wheeler, 1826 |
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... labour , or to my former master . Yet he taught me a great deal . " He thus discriminated to Dr. Percy , bishop of Dromore , his progress at his two grammar schools : " At one , I learned much in the school , but little from the master ...
... labour , or to my former master . Yet he taught me a great deal . " He thus discriminated to Dr. Percy , bishop of Dromore , his progress at his two grammar schools : " At one , I learned much in the school , but little from the master ...
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... labours , and all his enjoyments , were but temporary in- terruptions of its baleful influence . How wonderful , how unsearchable are the ways of God ! Johnson , who was blest with all the powers of genius and understanding in a degree ...
... labours , and all his enjoyments , were but temporary in- terruptions of its baleful influence . How wonderful , how unsearchable are the ways of God ! Johnson , who was blest with all the powers of genius and understanding in a degree ...
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... , without submitting to the labour of perusing it from beginning to end . He had , from the irritability of his constitution , at all times , an im- patience and hurry when he either read or wrote . ĘTAT . 20. ] 39 DR . JOHNSON .
... , without submitting to the labour of perusing it from beginning to end . He had , from the irritability of his constitution , at all times , an im- patience and hurry when he either read or wrote . ĘTAT . 20. ] 39 DR . JOHNSON .
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... labour , of which Mr. Hector has favoured me with a minute account . Having mentioned that he had read , at Pembroke college , a voyage to Abyssinia , by Lobo , a Portuguese jesuit , and that he thought an abridgement and translation of ...
... labour , of which Mr. Hector has favoured me with a minute account . Having mentioned that he had read , at Pembroke college , a voyage to Abyssinia , by Lobo , a Portuguese jesuit , and that he thought an abridgement and translation of ...
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... labours shall be crown'd with large success ; The Muse's aid thy Magazine shall bless . No page more grateful to th ' harmonious nine Than that wherein thy labours we survey ; Where solemn themes in fuller splendour shine , ( Delightful ...
... labours shall be crown'd with large success ; The Muse's aid thy Magazine shall bless . No page more grateful to th ' harmonious nine Than that wherein thy labours we survey ; Where solemn themes in fuller splendour shine , ( Delightful ...
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