The Life of Samuel Johnson, Volum 3Gabriel Wells, 1922 |
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... persons are singularly unfortunate who minimize or forget the part a great man plays in a biography of himself . The saying which barely keeps alive the name of Terentianus Maurus , Habent sua fata libelli , suggests , however , that ...
... persons are singularly unfortunate who minimize or forget the part a great man plays in a biography of himself . The saying which barely keeps alive the name of Terentianus Maurus , Habent sua fata libelli , suggests , however , that ...
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... person of the prince , and conceiving they owed him little gratitude , from the mere spirit of insolence and contradiction , they would oppose and thwart him upon all occasions . ' " The inseparable imperfection annexed to all human ...
... person of the prince , and conceiving they owed him little gratitude , from the mere spirit of insolence and contradiction , they would oppose and thwart him upon all occasions . ' " The inseparable imperfection annexed to all human ...
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... persons can distinguish colours by the touch . Johnson said , that Professor Sanderson mentions his having attempted to do it , but that he found he was aiming at an impossibility ; that to be sure a difference in the surface makes the ...
... persons can distinguish colours by the touch . Johnson said , that Professor Sanderson mentions his having attempted to do it , but that he found he was aiming at an impossibility ; that to be sure a difference in the surface makes the ...
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