The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D., Volume 2Talboys and Wheeler, 1826 |
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... talked of literary journals , mentioned particularly the Journal des Savans , and asked Johnson if it was well done . Johnson said , it was formerly very well done , and gave some account of the persons who began it , and carried it on ...
... talked of literary journals , mentioned particularly the Journal des Savans , and asked Johnson if it was well done . Johnson said , it was formerly very well done , and gave some account of the persons who began it , and carried it on ...
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... talked bawdy ; or that you had seen him in the cart at Tyburn , and he neither swore nor talked bawdy . And is it thus , sir , that you presume to contro- vert what I have related ? " Dr. Johnson's animadversion was uttered in such a ...
... talked bawdy ; or that you had seen him in the cart at Tyburn , and he neither swore nor talked bawdy . And is it thus , sir , that you presume to contro- vert what I have related ? " Dr. Johnson's animadversion was uttered in such a ...
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... talked of languages being formed on the particular notions and manners of a people , without knowing which , we can- not know the language . We may know the direct signi- fication of single words ; but by these no beauty of ex- pression ...
... talked of languages being formed on the particular notions and manners of a people , without knowing which , we can- not know the language . We may know the direct signi- fication of single words ; but by these no beauty of ex- pression ...
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... talked of the little attachment which subsisted be- tween near relations in London . " Sir , " said Johnson , " in a country so commercial as ours , where every man can do for himself , there is not so much occasion for that attachment ...
... talked of the little attachment which subsisted be- tween near relations in London . " Sir , " said Johnson , " in a country so commercial as ours , where every man can do for himself , there is not so much occasion for that attachment ...
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... talked of the notion that blind persons can distinguish colours by the touch . Johnson said , that professor Sanderson ' mentions his having attempted to do it , but that he found he was aiming at an impossibility ; that , to be sure ...
... talked of the notion that blind persons can distinguish colours by the touch . Johnson said , that professor Sanderson ' mentions his having attempted to do it , but that he found he was aiming at an impossibility ; that , to be sure ...
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