The Life of Samuel Johnson, Volum 3Henry G. Bohn, 1848 |
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... allowed to go on . The following letters , though not written till the year after , being chiefly upon the same subject , are here inserted . LETTER 103. TO MR . WILLIAM DRUMMOND . " Johnson's Court , Fleet Street , April 21. 1767 ...
... allowed to go on . The following letters , though not written till the year after , being chiefly upon the same subject , are here inserted . LETTER 103. TO MR . WILLIAM DRUMMOND . " Johnson's Court , Fleet Street , April 21. 1767 ...
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... allows me to call my home . " Miss Lucy is more kind and civil than I expected , and has raised my esteem by many excellencies very noble and resplendent , though a little discoloured by hoary virginity . Every thing else recalls to my ...
... allows me to call my home . " Miss Lucy is more kind and civil than I expected , and has raised my esteem by many excellencies very noble and resplendent , though a little discoloured by hoary virginity . Every thing else recalls to my ...
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... allowed to the dying declarations , because they were spontaneous . There is a great difference between what is said without our being urged to it , and what is said from a kind of compulsion . If I praise a man's book without being ...
... allowed to the dying declarations , because they were spontaneous . There is a great difference between what is said without our being urged to it , and what is said from a kind of compulsion . If I praise a man's book without being ...
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... allowed us to prepare for eternity ; " the night cometh ( 1 ) when no man can work . " He sometime afterwards laid aside this dial - plate ; and when I asked him the reason , he said , " It might do very well upon a clock which a man ...
... allowed us to prepare for eternity ; " the night cometh ( 1 ) when no man can work . " He sometime afterwards laid aside this dial - plate ; and when I asked him the reason , he said , " It might do very well upon a clock which a man ...
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... allows . But such is the condition of our nature , that as we live on we must see those whom we love drop successively , and find our circle of relations grow less and less , till we are almost unconnected with the world ; and then it ...
... allows . But such is the condition of our nature , that as we live on we must see those whom we love drop successively , and find our circle of relations grow less and less , till we are almost unconnected with the world ; and then it ...
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