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... praise ? " JOHNSON . " Why , Madam , because I have not then got the better of my bad humour from having been shewn them . You must consider , Madam ; before - hand they may be bad , as well as good . Nobody has a right to put another ...
... praise ? " JOHNSON . " Why , Madam , because I have not then got the better of my bad humour from having been shewn them . You must consider , Madam ; before - hand they may be bad , as well as good . Nobody has a right to put another ...
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... praise has any other excellence . Then , all censure of a man's self is oblique praise . It is in order to shew how much he can spare . It has all the invidious- ness of self - praise , and all the reproach of falsehood . " BOSWELL ...
... praise has any other excellence . Then , all censure of a man's self is oblique praise . It is in order to shew how much he can spare . It has all the invidious- ness of self - praise , and all the reproach of falsehood . " BOSWELL ...
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... praise her , I would say , that her manners are the most agreeable , and her conversation the best , of any lady with whom I ever had the happi- ness to be acquainted . Before Johnson came we talked a good deal of him ; Ramsay said , he ...
... praise her , I would say , that her manners are the most agreeable , and her conversation the best , of any lady with whom I ever had the happi- ness to be acquainted . Before Johnson came we talked a good deal of him ; Ramsay said , he ...
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... praise my active merit , and would be alert to embrace such an offer from a nobleman . But whether I had shewn an over- exultation , which provoked his spleen , or whether he was seized with a suspicion that I had obtruded him on Lord ...
... praise my active merit , and would be alert to embrace such an offer from a nobleman . But whether I had shewn an over- exultation , which provoked his spleen , or whether he was seized with a suspicion that I had obtruded him on Lord ...
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... praise his poetry itself highly ; but I can praise its design . " My illustrious friend and I parted with assurances of affectionate regard . I wrote to him on the 25th of May , from Thorpe , in Yorkshire , one of the seats of Mr ...
... praise his poetry itself highly ; but I can praise its design . " My illustrious friend and I parted with assurances of affectionate regard . I wrote to him on the 25th of May , from Thorpe , in Yorkshire , one of the seats of Mr ...
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