The Life of Samuel Johnson: Together with The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides, Volum 3G. Bell, 1884 |
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... wonderful acute ingenuity , our being actuated by a series of motives which we cannot resist , that the only relief I had was to forget it . " MAYO . " But he makes the proper distinction between moral and physical necessity . " BOSWELL ...
... wonderful acute ingenuity , our being actuated by a series of motives which we cannot resist , that the only relief I had was to forget it . " MAYO . " But he makes the proper distinction between moral and physical necessity . " BOSWELL ...
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... wonderful it was that they had both been in London forty years , without having ever once met , and both walkers in the street too ! " Mr. Edwards , when going away , again recurred to his consciousness of senility , and , looking full ...
... wonderful it was that they had both been in London forty years , without having ever once met , and both walkers in the street too ! " Mr. Edwards , when going away , again recurred to his consciousness of senility , and , looking full ...
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... wonderful celerity . ' He was likewise particular in requiring to know what was the weight of the musket balls in use , and within what distance they might be expected to take effect when fired off . " In walking among the tents , and ...
... wonderful celerity . ' He was likewise particular in requiring to know what was the weight of the musket balls in use , and within what distance they might be expected to take effect when fired off . " In walking among the tents , and ...
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... wonderful what a number and variety of writers , some of them even un- known to him , prevailed on his good - nature to look over their works , and suggest corrections and improvements . My arrival interrupted , for a little while , the ...
... wonderful what a number and variety of writers , some of them even un- known to him , prevailed on his good - nature to look over their works , and suggest corrections and improvements . My arrival interrupted , for a little while , the ...
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... wonderful concealment of the author of the celebrated letters signed Junius , he said , " I should have believed Burke to be Junius , because I know no man but Burke who is capable of writing these letters ; but Burke spontaneously ...
... wonderful concealment of the author of the celebrated letters signed Junius , he said , " I should have believed Burke to be Junius , because I know no man but Burke who is capable of writing these letters ; but Burke spontaneously ...
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