The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: Comprehending an Account of His Studies, and Numerous Works, in Chronological Order; a Series of His Epistolary Correspondence and Conversations with Many Eminent Persons; and Various Original Pieces of His Composition Never Before Published: the Whole Exhibiting a View of Literature and Literary Men in Great Britain, for Near Half a Century During which He Flourished, Band 4C. Ewer & T. Bedlington, 1824 |
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... Johnson's small Dictionary : be shewed it to me , with some eagerness , saying , ' Look'ye ! Que regio in terris nostri non plena laboris . ' He observed , also , Goldsmith's " Animated Nature ; " and said , " Here's our friend ! the ...
... Johnson's small Dictionary : be shewed it to me , with some eagerness , saying , ' Look'ye ! Que regio in terris nostri non plena laboris . ' He observed , also , Goldsmith's " Animated Nature ; " and said , " Here's our friend ! the ...
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... Johnson observed , that " a man should take a suffi- cient quantity of sleep , which Dr. Mead says is between seven and nine hours . " I told him that Dr. Cullen said to me , that a man should not take more sleep than he can take at ...
... Johnson observed , that " a man should take a suffi- cient quantity of sleep , which Dr. Mead says is between seven and nine hours . " I told him that Dr. Cullen said to me , that a man should not take more sleep than he can take at ...
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... Johnson and Taylor were so different from each oth- er , that I wondered at their preserving an intimacy . Their having been at school and college together might , in some degree , account for this ; but Sir Joshua Rey- nolds has ...
... Johnson and Taylor were so different from each oth- er , that I wondered at their preserving an intimacy . Their having been at school and college together might , in some degree , account for this ; but Sir Joshua Rey- nolds has ...
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... Johnson's ; for he was above little arts , or tricks of deception . Johnson was by no means of opinion , that every man of a learned profession should consider it as incumbent upon him , or as necessary to his credit , to appear as an ...
... Johnson's ; for he was above little arts , or tricks of deception . Johnson was by no means of opinion , that every man of a learned profession should consider it as incumbent upon him , or as necessary to his credit , to appear as an ...
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... JOHNSON . " Is getting a hundred thousand pounds a proof of ex- cellence ? That has been done by a scoundrel commis- sary . " This was most fallacious reasoning . I was sure , for once , that I had the best side of the argument . I bold ...
... JOHNSON . " Is getting a hundred thousand pounds a proof of ex- cellence ? That has been done by a scoundrel commis- sary . " This was most fallacious reasoning . I was sure , for once , that I had the best side of the argument . I bold ...
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