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 4J. Richardson, 1821 |
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... lived in great intimacy with him , shewn him much kindness , and even relieved him from a spunging - house , having afterwards fallen into bad circumstances , was one day , when Johnson was at dinner with him , seized for debt , and ...
... lived in great intimacy with him , shewn him much kindness , and even relieved him from a spunging - house , having afterwards fallen into bad circumstances , was one day , when Johnson was at dinner with him , seized for debt , and ...
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... lived in his household ; that there he found the rigid fasting prescribed by the church very severe upon him ; that this disposed him to reconsider the con- troversy , and having then seen that he was in the wrong , he returned to ...
... lived in his household ; that there he found the rigid fasting prescribed by the church very severe upon him ; that this disposed him to reconsider the con- troversy , and having then seen that he was in the wrong , he returned to ...
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... lived to read what Sir John Hawkins and Mrs. Piozzi have related concerning himself , how much would he have found his observation illustrated . He was indeed so much impressed with the prevalence of falsehood , voluntary or ...
... lived to read what Sir John Hawkins and Mrs. Piozzi have related concerning himself , how much would he have found his observation illustrated . He was indeed so much impressed with the prevalence of falsehood , voluntary or ...
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... enlarged only because he has lived in a large place but what is got by books and thinking is preserved in a narrow place as well as in a large VOL . IV . : 1 I place . A man cannot know modes of life as Etat . 69. ] 85 DR . JOHNSON .
... enlarged only because he has lived in a large place but what is got by books and thinking is preserved in a narrow place as well as in a large VOL . IV . : 1 I place . A man cannot know modes of life as Etat . 69. ] 85 DR . JOHNSON .
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... lived , would have deserved it better . He had , indeed , been at no pains to fill his mind with knowledge . He transplanted it from one place to another ; and it did not settle in his mind ; so he could not tell what was in his own ...
... lived , would have deserved it better . He had , indeed , been at no pains to fill his mind with knowledge . He transplanted it from one place to another ; and it did not settle in his mind ; so he could not tell what was in his own ...
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