The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.Talboys & Wheeler, 1826 - Authors, English |
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... truth is , that the appellation of gentleman , though now lost in the indiscriminate assump- tion of esquire , was commonly taken by those who could not boast of gentility . His father was Michael Johnson , a native of Derbyshire , of ...
... truth is , that the appellation of gentleman , though now lost in the indiscriminate assump- tion of esquire , was commonly taken by those who could not boast of gentility . His father was Michael Johnson , a native of Derbyshire , of ...
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... truth was , that my father , having in the early part of his life contracted debts , never had trade sufficient to enable him to pay them , and to maintain his family : he got something , but geon , of Birmingham , if she was not vain ...
... truth was , that my father , having in the early part of his life contracted debts , never had trade sufficient to enable him to pay them , and to maintain his family : he got something , but geon , of Birmingham , if she was not vain ...
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... truth of which I am to refute upon his own authority . It is told " , that , when a child of three years old , he chanced to tread upon a duckling , the eleventh of a brood , and killed it ; upon which , it is said , he dictated to his ...
... truth of which I am to refute upon his own authority . It is told " , that , when a child of three years old , he chanced to tread upon a duckling , the eleventh of a brood , and killed it ; upon which , it is said , he dictated to his ...
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... truth , there was not the least reality in any of the " Boswell's psychological knowledge is not displayed in this remark . Some faculties of the mind appear to be strengthened by the extinction of others ; as we perceive the taste and ...
... truth , there was not the least reality in any of the " Boswell's psychological knowledge is not displayed in this remark . Some faculties of the mind appear to be strengthened by the extinction of others ; as we perceive the taste and ...
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... truth of Vir- gil's noble sentiment- Igneus est ollis vigor et cœlestis origo . 66 The history of his mind as to religion is an important article . I have mentioned the early impressions made upon his tender imagination by his mother ...
... truth of Vir- gil's noble sentiment- Igneus est ollis vigor et cœlestis origo . 66 The history of his mind as to religion is an important article . I have mentioned the early impressions made upon his tender imagination by his mother ...
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