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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... effect . " As your father's liberality has indulged you with so long a ramble , I doubt not but you will think his sickness , or even his desire to see you , a sufficient reason for hastening your return . The longer we live , and the ...
... effect . " As your father's liberality has indulged you with so long a ramble , I doubt not but you will think his sickness , or even his desire to see you , a sufficient reason for hastening your return . The longer we live , and the ...
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... effect can they have had on rent , taxes , wages , and other permanent charges of a respectable domestic establishment ? -Croker . 1 Of his being in the chair of the Literary Club , which at this time met once a week in the evening ...
... effect can they have had on rent , taxes , wages , and other permanent charges of a respectable domestic establishment ? -Croker . 1 Of his being in the chair of the Literary Club , which at this time met once a week in the evening ...
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... effects as your mention , gives me great pleasure . I hope you do not flatter me by imputing to me more good than I have really done . Those 1 The Rev. Mr. John Campbell , minister of the parish of Kippen , near Stirling , who has ...
... effects as your mention , gives me great pleasure . I hope you do not flatter me by imputing to me more good than I have really done . Those 1 The Rev. Mr. John Campbell , minister of the parish of Kippen , near Stirling , who has ...
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... effect of effluvia from human bodies . Johnson , at another time , 1 praised Macaulay for his " magnanimity , " in asserting this wonderful story , because it was well attested . A lady of Norfolk , by a letter to my friend Dr. Burney ...
... effect of effluvia from human bodies . Johnson , at another time , 1 praised Macaulay for his " magnanimity , " in asserting this wonderful story , because it was well attested . A lady of Norfolk , by a letter to my friend Dr. Burney ...
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... effect , for Boswell made a fool of himself at the Jubilee by sundry enthusiastic freaks ; amongst others , lest he should not be sufficiently distinguished , he wore the words CORSICA BOSWELL in large letters round his hat . There was ...
... effect , for Boswell made a fool of himself at the Jubilee by sundry enthusiastic freaks ; amongst others , lest he should not be sufficiently distinguished , he wore the words CORSICA BOSWELL in large letters round his hat . There was ...
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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...