The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Including a Journal of His Tour to the Hebrides;Henry G. Bohn, York Street, Covent Garden, 1846 |
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... told me , Sir , he does it for instruction . " JOHNSON . " Whatever the motive be , Sir , the man who does so , does very wrong . He has no more right to instruct himself at such risk , than he has to make two people fight a duel , that ...
... told me , Sir , he does it for instruction . " JOHNSON . " Whatever the motive be , Sir , the man who does so , does very wrong . He has no more right to instruct himself at such risk , than he has to make two people fight a duel , that ...
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... told , Congreve wrote his " Old Bachelor . " We viewed a remarkable natural curiosity at Ilam ; two rivers bursting near each other from the rock , not from immediate springs , but after having run for many miles under ground . Plott ...
... told , Congreve wrote his " Old Bachelor . " We viewed a remarkable natural curiosity at Ilam ; two rivers bursting near each other from the rock , not from immediate springs , but after having run for many miles under ground . Plott ...
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... told me that it was Johnson him- self who had made this experiment ; but there is not the least doubt of the fact . The river sinks suddenly into the earth behind a hill above the valley , and bursts out again in the same direction ...
... told me that it was Johnson him- self who had made this experiment ; but there is not the least doubt of the fact . The river sinks suddenly into the earth behind a hill above the valley , and bursts out again in the same direction ...
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... told us was " perfectly well shaped . " John- son , after examining the animal attentively , thus re- pressed the vain - glory of our host : " No , Sir , he is not well shaped ; for there is not the quick transition rom the thickness of ...
... told us was " perfectly well shaped . " John- son , after examining the animal attentively , thus re- pressed the vain - glory of our host : " No , Sir , he is not well shaped ; for there is not the quick transition rom the thickness of ...
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... told that Horace , Earl of Orford , has a collection of Bon - Mots by persons who never said but one . B. I see coarseness here , but no wit . - C. - - he must be more combustible than other people . " 10 1777 . LIFE OF JOHNSON .
... told that Horace , Earl of Orford , has a collection of Bon - Mots by persons who never said but one . B. I see coarseness here , but no wit . - C. - - he must be more combustible than other people . " 10 1777 . LIFE OF JOHNSON .
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