The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: Including a Journal of His Tour to the Hebrides, Band 2,Teil 1J. Murray, 1835 |
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... preface is noble . There is a grammar prefixed , and the history of the language is pretty full ; but you may plainly perceive strokes of laxity and indolence . They are two most unwieldy volumes . I have written him an invitation . I ...
... preface is noble . There is a grammar prefixed , and the history of the language is pretty full ; but you may plainly perceive strokes of laxity and indolence . They are two most unwieldy volumes . I have written him an invitation . I ...
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... Preface be attentively perused , in which is given , in a clear , strong , and glowing style , a comprehensive , yet particular view of what he had done ; and it will be evident , that the time he employed upon it was comparatively ...
... Preface be attentively perused , in which is given , in a clear , strong , and glowing style , a comprehensive , yet particular view of what he had done ; and it will be evident , that the time he employed upon it was comparatively ...
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... Preface furnishes an eminent instance of a double talent , of which Johnson was fully conscious . Sir Joshua Reynolds heard him say , " There are two things which I am confident I can do very well : one is an introduction to any ...
... Preface furnishes an eminent instance of a double talent , of which Johnson was fully conscious . Sir Joshua Reynolds heard him say , " There are two things which I am confident I can do very well : one is an introduction to any ...
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... Preface announces that he was aware that there might be many such in so immense a work ; nor was he at all disconcerted when an instance was pointed out to him ( 1 ) . A lady once asked him . how he came to define Pastern the knee of a ...
... Preface announces that he was aware that there might be many such in so immense a work ; nor was he at all disconcerted when an instance was pointed out to him ( 1 ) . A lady once asked him . how he came to define Pastern the knee of a ...
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... Preface : " To explain , requires the use of terms less abstruse than that which is to be explained , and such terms can- not always be found . For , as nothing can be proved but by supposing something intuitively known , and evident ...
... Preface : " To explain , requires the use of terms less abstruse than that which is to be explained , and such terms can- not always be found . For , as nothing can be proved but by supposing something intuitively known , and evident ...
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