The Life of Samuel Johnson: Including the Tour to the HebridesHenry Holt & Company, 1882 - 689 pàgines |
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... opinion of the generality of mankind , is attended with contempt and disgrace . It is a common effect of low spirits or melancholy , to make those who are afflicted with it imagine that they are I * BOSWELL'S LIFE OF JOHNSON . 9.
... opinion of the generality of mankind , is attended with contempt and disgrace . It is a common effect of low spirits or melancholy , to make those who are afflicted with it imagine that they are I * BOSWELL'S LIFE OF JOHNSON . 9.
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... opinion not with judgment . " Sunday , " said he , " was a heavy day to me when I was a boy . My mother con- fined me on that day , and made me read ' The Whole Duty of Man , ' from a great part of which I could derive no instruction ...
... opinion not with judgment . " Sunday , " said he , " was a heavy day to me when I was a boy . My mother con- fined me on that day , and made me read ' The Whole Duty of Man , ' from a great part of which I could derive no instruction ...
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... opinion , and favored me with the following paper : - " Those motions or tricks of Dr. Johnson are improperly called convulsions . He could sit motionless when he was told so to do , as well as any other man . My opinion is , that it ...
... opinion , and favored me with the following paper : - " Those motions or tricks of Dr. Johnson are improperly called convulsions . He could sit motionless when he was told so to do , as well as any other man . My opinion is , that it ...
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... opinion of the best judges , as high an effort of ethic poetry as any language can show . The instances of variety of disappointment are chosen so judiciously , and painted so strongly , that , the moment they are read , they bring ...
... opinion of the best judges , as high an effort of ethic poetry as any language can show . The instances of variety of disappointment are chosen so judiciously , and painted so strongly , that , the moment they are read , they bring ...
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... opinion : " A man , " said he , " who writes a book , thinks himself wiser or wittier than the rest of mankind ; he supposes that he can instruct or amuse them , and the public to whom he appeals must , after all , be the judges of his ...
... opinion : " A man , " said he , " who writes a book , thinks himself wiser or wittier than the rest of mankind ; he supposes that he can instruct or amuse them , and the public to whom he appeals must , after all , be the judges of his ...
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