The Life of Samuel Johnson: Including the Tour to the HebridesHenry Holt & Company, 1882 - 689 pàgines |
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... young as he was , he believed he had caught the public spirit and zeal for Sacheverel , and would have stayed for ever in the church , satisfied with beholding him . ” Nor can I omit a little instance of that jealous independence of ...
... young as he was , he believed he had caught the public spirit and zeal for Sacheverel , and would have stayed for ever in the church , satisfied with beholding him . ” Nor can I omit a little instance of that jealous independence of ...
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... Young Johnson had the misfortune to be much afflicted with the scrofula , or king's evil , which disfigured a countenance natu- rally well formed , and hurt his visual nerves so much , that he did not see at all with one of his eyes ...
... Young Johnson had the misfortune to be much afflicted with the scrofula , or king's evil , which disfigured a countenance natu- rally well formed , and hurt his visual nerves so much , that he did not see at all with one of his eyes ...
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... young people ; and that the listless torpor of doing nothing , alone deserves that name . Of this dis- mal inertness of disposition , Johnson had all his life too great a share . Mr. Hector relates , that " he could not oblige him more ...
... young people ; and that the listless torpor of doing nothing , alone deserves that name . Of this dis- mal inertness of disposition , Johnson had all his life too great a share . Mr. Hector relates , that " he could not oblige him more ...
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... young friend and patient , which , in the superficial 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 ...
... young friend and patient , which , in the superficial 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 ...
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... young man , as distinguished for his complaisance . In the forlorn state of his circumstances , he accepted of an offer to be employed as usher in the school of Market - Bosworth , in Leicestershire , to which it appears , from one of ...
... young man , as distinguished for his complaisance . In the forlorn state of his circumstances , he accepted of an offer to be employed as usher in the school of Market - Bosworth , in Leicestershire , to which it appears , from one of ...
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