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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... tell you that can deserve your notice ; nor would I willingly lessen the pleasure that any novelty may give you at your return . I am afraid we shall find it difficult to keep among us a mind which has been so long feasted 22 1766 ...
... tell you that can deserve your notice ; nor would I willingly lessen the pleasure that any novelty may give you at your return . I am afraid we shall find it difficult to keep among us a mind which has been so long feasted 22 1766 ...
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... tell us will be new to us . Give us as many anecdotes as you can . " Our next meeting at the Mitre was on Saturday the 15th of February , when I presented to him my old and most in- timate friend , the Rev. Mr. Temple , then of ...
... tell us will be new to us . Give us as many anecdotes as you can . " Our next meeting at the Mitre was on Saturday the 15th of February , when I presented to him my old and most in- timate friend , the Rev. Mr. Temple , then of ...
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... tell you that THE CLUB subsists ; but we have the loss of Burke's company since he has been engaged in public busi- ness , ' in which he has gained more reputation than perhaps any man at his [ first ] appearance ever gained before . He ...
... tell you that THE CLUB subsists ; but we have the loss of Burke's company since he has been engaged in public busi- ness , ' in which he has gained more reputation than perhaps any man at his [ first ] appearance ever gained before . He ...
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... telling you that your Latin wants correction.2 In the beginning , Spei alteræ , not to urge that it should be primæ , is not grammatical ; alteræ should be alteri . In the next line you seem to use genus absolutely , for what we call ...
... telling you that your Latin wants correction.2 In the beginning , Spei alteræ , not to urge that it should be primæ , is not grammatical ; alteræ should be alteri . In the next line you seem to use genus absolutely , for what we call ...
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... tell me it should have been alteri . You must recollect , that in old times alter was declined regularly ; and when the ancient fragments preserved in the Juris Civilis Fontes were written , it was certainly declined in the way that I ...
... tell me it should have been alteri . You must recollect , that in old times alter was declined regularly ; and when the ancient fragments preserved in the Juris Civilis Fontes were written , it was certainly declined in the way that I ...
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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...