The Life of Samuel Johnson: Together with The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides, Volum 3G. Bell, 1884 |
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... nature of the ingredients be well known , much fewer will do . Then , as you cannot make bad meat good , I would tell what is the best butcher's meat , the best beef , the best pieces ; how to choose young fowls ; the proper seasons of ...
... nature of the ingredients be well known , much fewer will do . Then , as you cannot make bad meat good , I would tell what is the best butcher's meat , the best beef , the best pieces ; how to choose young fowls ; the proper seasons of ...
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... nature , involved with theological tenets which he generally would not suffer to be in any degree opposed.1 He , as usual , defended luxury : " You cannot spend money in luxury without doing good to the poor . Nay , you do more good to ...
... nature , involved with theological tenets which he generally would not suffer to be in any degree opposed.1 He , as usual , defended luxury : " You cannot spend money in luxury without doing good to the poor . Nay , you do more good to ...
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... nature , or from their not being able to tell the truth firmly , a commendation , of which he may afterwards avail himself . " JOHNSON . " Very true , Sir . Therefore , the man who is asked by an author , what he thinks of his work , is ...
... nature , or from their not being able to tell the truth firmly , a commendation , of which he may afterwards avail himself . " JOHNSON . " Very true , Sir . Therefore , the man who is asked by an author , what he thinks of his work , is ...
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... nature . JOHNSON . " I do not think so : a man has from nature a cer- tain portion of mind ; the use he makes of it depends upon his own free will . That a man has always the same firmness of mind , I do not say : because every man ...
... nature . JOHNSON . " I do not think so : a man has from nature a cer- tain portion of mind ; the use he makes of it depends upon his own free will . That a man has always the same firmness of mind , I do not say : because every man ...
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... Nature's God Which Nature's self inspires ? " and that Dr. Johnson observed , it had been borrowed from Guarini . There are , indeed , in Pastor Fido many such flimsy superficial reasonings as that in the last two lines of this stanza ...
... Nature's God Which Nature's self inspires ? " and that Dr. Johnson observed , it had been borrowed from Guarini . There are , indeed , in Pastor Fido many such flimsy superficial reasonings as that in the last two lines of this stanza ...
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