The Life of Samuel Johnson, Volum 5J.M. Dent and Company, 1902 |
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... wish to have the arguments for Chris- tianity always in readiness , that my religious faith might be as firm and clear as any proposition what- ever , so that I need not be under the least uneasiness , when it should be attacked ...
... wish to have the arguments for Chris- tianity always in readiness , that my religious faith might be as firm and clear as any proposition what- ever , so that I need not be under the least uneasiness , when it should be attacked ...
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... wish to sacrifice himself to such a man . If he must always have somebody to drink with him , he should buy a slave , and then he would be sure to have it . They who submit to drink as another pleases , make themselves his slaves ...
... wish to sacrifice himself to such a man . If he must always have somebody to drink with him , he should buy a slave , and then he would be sure to have it . They who submit to drink as another pleases , make themselves his slaves ...
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... wish much to have one branch well done , and that is the history of manners , of common life . " ROBERTSON . " Henry should have applied his attention to that alone , which is enough for any man ; and he might have found a great deal ...
... wish much to have one branch well done , and that is the history of manners , of common life . " ROBERTSON . " Henry should have applied his attention to that alone , which is enough for any man ; and he might have found a great deal ...
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... wish to know old age ? He who is never an old man , does not know the whole of human life ; for old age is one of the divisions of it . " JOHNSON . " Nay , Sir , what talk is this ? " BOSWELL . " I mean , Sir , the Sphinx's description ...
... wish to know old age ? He who is never an old man , does not know the whole of human life ; for old age is one of the divisions of it . " JOHNSON . " Nay , Sir , what talk is this ? " BOSWELL . " I mean , Sir , the Sphinx's description ...
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... wish Blair would come over to the Church of England . " When Mr. Langton returned to us , the " flow of talk " went on . Än eminent authour being men- tioned ; -JOHNSON . " He is not a pleasant man . His conversation is neither ...
... wish Blair would come over to the Church of England . " When Mr. Langton returned to us , the " flow of talk " went on . Än eminent authour being men- tioned ; -JOHNSON . " He is not a pleasant man . His conversation is neither ...
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