The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D., Volume 2Talboys and Wheeler, 1826 |
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... thought , conclude by chance . To prefer one future mode of life to another , upon just reasons , requires faculties which it has not pleased our Creator to give us . " If therefore the profession you have chosen has some unexpected ...
... thought , conclude by chance . To prefer one future mode of life to another , upon just reasons , requires faculties which it has not pleased our Creator to give us . " If therefore the profession you have chosen has some unexpected ...
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... thoughts but trade or policy , present power , or present money , I should not think it necessary to defend my ... thought more subtle than the grossness of real life will easily admit . Let it , however , be remembered , that the ...
... thoughts but trade or policy , present power , or present money , I should not think it necessary to defend my ... thought more subtle than the grossness of real life will easily admit . Let it , however , be remembered , that the ...
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... thought he had already done his part as a writer . " I should have thought so too , " said the king , " if you had not written so well . " - Johnson observed to me , upon this , that " No man could have paid a handsomer compliment ; and ...
... thought he had already done his part as a writer . " I should have thought so too , " said the king , " if you had not written so well . " - Johnson observed to me , upon this , that " No man could have paid a handsomer compliment ; and ...
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... thought of lord Lyttelton's history , which was then just published . John- son said , he thought his style pretty good , but that he had blamed Henry the second rather too much , " Why , " said the king , " they seldom do these things ...
... thought of lord Lyttelton's history , which was then just published . John- son said , he thought his style pretty good , but that he had blamed Henry the second rather too much , " Why , " said the king , " they seldom do these things ...
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... prevailed on Johnson to omit them . The epithet little , which perhaps the author thought might diminish his dignity , was also changed to anxious . - ED . f See The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides 40 [ 1768 . THE LIFE OF.
... prevailed on Johnson to omit them . The epithet little , which perhaps the author thought might diminish his dignity , was also changed to anxious . - ED . f See The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides 40 [ 1768 . THE LIFE OF.
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