The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: Together with The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides, Volumen2G. Bell and sons, 1889 |
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... months of June , July , and August with me , accompanied by his friend Mrs. Williams , whom Mrs. Percy found a very agreeable companion . - Percy . TO JOSHUA REYNOLDS , ESQ . " DEAR SIR , 8 1764 . BOSWELL'S LIFE OF JOHNSON .
... months of June , July , and August with me , accompanied by his friend Mrs. Williams , whom Mrs. Percy found a very agreeable companion . - Percy . TO JOSHUA REYNOLDS , ESQ . " DEAR SIR , 8 1764 . BOSWELL'S LIFE OF JOHNSON .
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... DEAR SIR , In Leicester Fields , London . " I did not hear of your sickness till I heard likewise of your recovery ... dear Miss Reynolds . ' Make my compliments to Mr. Mudge . I am , dear Sir , your most affectionate and most humble ...
... DEAR SIR , In Leicester Fields , London . " I did not hear of your sickness till I heard likewise of your recovery ... dear Miss Reynolds . ' Make my compliments to Mr. Mudge . I am , dear Sir , your most affectionate and most humble ...
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... DEAR SIR , 66 A M. M. BOSWELL . Chez M. Waters , Banquier , à Paris . " Johnson's Court , Fleet Street , Jan. 14 , 1766 . We will delay till your Apologies are seldom of any use . arrival the reasons , good or bad , which have made me ...
... DEAR SIR , 66 A M. M. BOSWELL . Chez M. Waters , Banquier , à Paris . " Johnson's Court , Fleet Street , Jan. 14 , 1766 . We will delay till your Apologies are seldom of any use . arrival the reasons , good or bad , which have made me ...
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... dear Sir , your affec- tionate humble servant , " SAM . JOHNSON . " I returned to London in February , and found Dr. Johnson in a good house in Johnson's Court , Fleet Street , in which he had accommodated Miss Williams with an ...
... dear Sir , your affec- tionate humble servant , " SAM . JOHNSON . " I returned to London in February , and found Dr. Johnson in a good house in Johnson's Court , Fleet Street , in which he had accommodated Miss Williams with an ...
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... Sir , I never was near enough to great men , to court them . You may be prudently attached to great men , and yet independent . You are not to do what you think wrong ; and , Sir , you are to calculate , and not pay too dear for what ...
... Sir , I never was near enough to great men , to court them . You may be prudently attached to great men , and yet independent . You are not to do what you think wrong ; and , Sir , you are to calculate , and not pay too dear for what ...
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Página 314 - The greatest part of a writer's time is spent in reading, in order to write ; a man will turn over half a library to make one book." I argued warmly against the Judges trading, and mentioned Hale as an instance of a perfect Judge, who devoted himself entirely to his office. JOHNSON. " Hale, Sir, attended to other things besides law : he left a great estate.
Página 24 - In every government, though terrors reign, Though tyrant kings or tyrant laws restrain, How small, of all that human hearts endure, That part which laws or kings can cause or cure ! Still to ourselves in every place consign'd, Our own felicity we make or find : With secret course, which no loud storms annoy, Glides the smooth current of domestic joy. The lifted axe, the agonizing wheel, Luke's iron crown, and Damien's bed of steel, To men remote from power but rarely known, Leave reason, faith, and...