The Life of Samuel Johnson: Comprising a Series of His Epistolary Correspondence and Conversations with Many Eminent Persons and Various Original Pieces of His Composition, with a Chronological Account of His Studies and Numerous Works ...George Routledge, 1867 - 526 páginas |
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... Truth will not afford sufficient food to their vanity so they have betaken themselves to error . Truth , Sir , is a cow which will yield such people no more milk , and so they are gone to milk the bull . If I could have allowed myself ...
... Truth will not afford sufficient food to their vanity so they have betaken themselves to error . Truth , Sir , is a cow which will yield such people no more milk , and so they are gone to milk the bull . If I could have allowed myself ...
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... truth . I dined with him this day at the house of my friends , Messrs . Edward and Charles Dilly , book- sellers in ... truth never can prevail ; and the magistrate was right in per- secuting the first Christians . " JOHNSON : the only ...
... truth . I dined with him this day at the house of my friends , Messrs . Edward and Charles Dilly , book- sellers in ... truth never can prevail ; and the magistrate was right in per- secuting the first Christians . " JOHNSON : the only ...
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... Truth ? JOHNSON : " The general rule is , that truth should never be violated , because it is of the utmost importance to the comfort of life , that we should have a full security by mutual faith ; and occasional inconveniences should ...
... Truth ? JOHNSON : " The general rule is , that truth should never be violated , because it is of the utmost importance to the comfort of life , that we should have a full security by mutual faith ; and occasional inconveniences should ...
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1776 Boswell again visits London | 13 |
17091731 Birth and Infancy of Johnson | 18 |
1763 Account of GoldsmithJohn | 20 |
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acquaintance admiration affectionate afterwards appeared Ashbourne asked Beauclerk believe BENNET LANGTON Bishop bookseller character church compliments consider conversation David Garrick DEAR SIR death dined edition eminent English favour Garrick gentleman Gentleman's Magazine give Goldsmith happy hear heard Hebrides honour hope humble servant JAMES BOSWELL John Johnson Joseph Warton kind king lady Langton language late learned letter Lichfield literary lived London Lord Lord Chesterfield Lord Monboddo Lucy Porter Madam MALONE manner ment mentioned merit mind never obliged observed occasion once opinion Oxford perhaps pleased pleasure poem poet Pope praise published racter Rambler recollect remark Samuel Johnson Scotland Shakspeare Sir Joshua Reynolds Streatham suppose sure talked tell thing THOMAS WARTON thought Thrale tion told truth verses Whig Williams wish write written wrote