Boswell's Life of JohnsonG. Routledge and Sons, 1856 - 298 pàgines |
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... things which it would be very disagreeable to have mentioned before higher company , though perhaps every body knows of them . " He placed this subject in a new light to me , and showed that a man who has risen in the world must not be ...
... things which it would be very disagreeable to have mentioned before higher company , though perhaps every body knows of them . " He placed this subject in a new light to me , and showed that a man who has risen in the world must not be ...
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... thing in general . " I said I was certain that a great part of what we are told by the travellers to the South Sea must be conjecture , because they had not enough of the language of those countries to understand so much as they have ...
... thing in general . " I said I was certain that a great part of what we are told by the travellers to the South Sea must be conjecture , because they had not enough of the language of those countries to understand so much as they have ...
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... thing . It is as much almost as a man can make by his learning ; and therefore we find the most learned men abroad are in the universities . It is not so with us . Our universities are impoverished of learning , by the penury of their ...
... thing . It is as much almost as a man can make by his learning ; and therefore we find the most learned men abroad are in the universities . It is not so with us . Our universities are impoverished of learning , by the penury of their ...
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... things ; but there is no end of objections . There are few books to which some objection or other may not be made . " He added , “ I would not have you read anything else of Cheyne , but his book on Health , and his ' English Malady ...
... things ; but there is no end of objections . There are few books to which some objection or other may not be made . " He added , “ I would not have you read anything else of Cheyne , but his book on Health , and his ' English Malady ...
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... thing , probably , twenty times before . " Of a nobleman raised at a very early period to high office , he said , " His parts , Sir , are pretty well for a lord , but would not be distinguished in a man who had nothing else but his ...
... thing , probably , twenty times before . " Of a nobleman raised at a very early period to high office , he said , " His parts , Sir , are pretty well for a lord , but would not be distinguished in a man who had nothing else but his ...
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