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This he would not acknowledge ; but he reasoned with admirable sophistry , as follows : Why , sir , a bishop's calling company together in this week , is , to use the vulgar phrase , not the thing . But you must consider laxity is a bad ...
This he would not acknowledge ; but he reasoned with admirable sophistry , as follows : Why , sir , a bishop's calling company together in this week , is , to use the vulgar phrase , not the thing . But you must consider laxity is a bad ...
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Raising the wages of day labourers is wrong ; for it does not make them live better , but only makes them idler , and idleness is a very bad thing for human nature . " " It is a very good custom to keep a journal for a man's own use ...
Raising the wages of day labourers is wrong ; for it does not make them live better , but only makes them idler , and idleness is a very bad thing for human nature . " " It is a very good custom to keep a journal for a man's own use ...
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Nay , sir , never try to have a thing merely to show that you cannot have it . From ground that would let for forty shillings you may have a large orchard ; and you see it costs you only forty shillings . Nay , you may graze the ground ...
Nay , sir , never try to have a thing merely to show that you cannot have it . From ground that would let for forty shillings you may have a large orchard ; and you see it costs you only forty shillings . Nay , you may graze the ground ...
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| Titel | The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. Oxford English classics Band 4 von The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D, James Boswell |
| Autor/in | James Boswell |
| Verlag | Talboys & Wheeler, 1826 |
| Original von | Harvard University |
| Digitalisiert | 12. Febr. 2008 |
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