The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Comprehending an Account of His Studies and Numerous Works, in Chronological Order; a Series of His Epistolary Correspondence and Conversations with Many Eminent Persons; and Various Original Pieces of His Composition, Never Before Published: the Whole Exhibiting a View of Literature and Literary Men in Great Britain, for Nearly Half a Century During which He Flourished, Volume 1G. Routledge & Company, Farringdon Street, 1857 - 300 páginas |
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... truth , I have still kept in my mind that the whole truth is not always to be exposed . This , however , I have managed so as to occasion no diminution of the pleasure which my book should afford ; though malignity may sometimes be ...
... truth , I have still kept in my mind that the whole truth is not always to be exposed . This , however , I have managed so as to occasion no diminution of the pleasure which my book should afford ; though malignity may sometimes be ...
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... truth , the progress of the present work furnishes a striking instance . It was highly gratifying to me that my friend , Sir Joshua Reynolds , to whom it is inscribed , lived to peruse it , and to give the strongest testimony to its ...
... truth , the progress of the present work furnishes a striking instance . It was highly gratifying to me that my friend , Sir Joshua Reynolds , to whom it is inscribed , lived to peruse it , and to give the strongest testimony to its ...
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... truth . " [ Rambler , No. 60. ] What I consider as the peculiar value of the following work , is , the quantity it contains of Johnson's conversation , which is universally acknowledged to have been eminently instructive and ...
... truth . " [ Rambler , No. 60. ] What I consider as the peculiar value of the following work , is , the quantity it contains of Johnson's conversation , which is universally acknowledged to have been eminently instructive and ...
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... truth is , that the appellation of Gentleman , though now lost in the indiscriminate assump- tion of Esquire , was commonly taken by those who could not boast of VOL . I. B gentility . His father was Michael Johnson , a native.
... truth is , that the appellation of Gentleman , though now lost in the indiscriminate assump- tion of Esquire , was commonly taken by those who could not boast of VOL . I. B gentility . His father was Michael Johnson , a native.
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... truth was , that my father having in the early part of his life contracted debts , never had trade sufficient to enable him to pay them , and to maintain his family ; he got something , but not enough . It was not till about 1768 , that ...
... truth was , that my father having in the early part of his life contracted debts , never had trade sufficient to enable him to pay them , and to maintain his family ; he got something , but not enough . It was not till about 1768 , that ...
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