The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides With Samuel Johnson, LL.D.Library of Alexandria, 1791 M01 1 - 442 páginas |
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... itis not easier, butbetter suited to the dignityof verse; asone may dance with grace, whose motions, in ordinary walking—in the common step—are awkward. Hehad a constitutional melancholy, the cloudsof which darkened thebrightness ofhis ...
... itis not easier, butbetter suited to the dignityof verse; asone may dance with grace, whose motions, in ordinary walking—in the common step—are awkward. Hehad a constitutional melancholy, the cloudsof which darkened thebrightness ofhis ...
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... itis an advantageto which he is entitled. There mustalways be some advantage, on one side orother; and itisbetter that advantage shouldbe had by talents, than by chance. If lawyers wereto undertake no causestill they were sure they were ...
... itis an advantageto which he is entitled. There mustalways be some advantage, on one side orother; and itisbetter that advantage shouldbe had by talents, than by chance. If lawyers wereto undertake no causestill they were sure they were ...
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... speaker, on the person of whom it is applied, the previous introduction,and a thousand minute particulars which cannot be easily enumerated, that itis always dangerous to detach a witty saying from the group to which it.
... speaker, on the person of whom it is applied, the previous introduction,and a thousand minute particulars which cannot be easily enumerated, that itis always dangerous to detach a witty saying from the group to which it.
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... itis very difficult to ascertain precisely therankandvalue of each.] WhatI most envy Burkefor, is,hisbeing constantly the same. He is neverwhatwe call humdrum; neverunwilling to begin to talk, nor in haste to leave off.' BOSWELL. 'Yet ...
... itis very difficult to ascertain precisely therankandvalue of each.] WhatI most envy Burkefor, is,hisbeing constantly the same. He is neverwhatwe call humdrum; neverunwilling to begin to talk, nor in haste to leave off.' BOSWELL. 'Yet ...
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... itis not injurious to say, that such a bond isnobetterthanthat by which the lowestand wickedest combinations are held together; andthatit denotes the last stage ofpolitical depravity.' To find athought, which justshewed itself tousfrom ...
... itis not injurious to say, that such a bond isnobetterthanthat by which the lowestand wickedest combinations are held together; andthatit denotes the last stage ofpolitical depravity.' To find athought, which justshewed itself tousfrom ...
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