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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... English , and understood one another very well , with a little aid of interpretation from me , in which I compared myself to an isthmus which joins two great continents . Upon Johnson's approach , the General said , " From what I have ...
... English , and understood one another very well , with a little aid of interpretation from me , in which I compared myself to an isthmus which joins two great continents . Upon Johnson's approach , the General said , " From what I have ...
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... English Poetry , vol . ii . , pp . 96 , 111 , fourth edition . Malone . Mr. Robert Chambers , of Edinburgh , who has favoured me with several notes and corrections , says , that the real author of the ballad was Elizabeth Halket ...
... English Poetry , vol . ii . , pp . 96 , 111 , fourth edition . Malone . Mr. Robert Chambers , of Edinburgh , who has favoured me with several notes and corrections , says , that the real author of the ballad was Elizabeth Halket ...
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... who for years was at the University of Oxford - a man who has added sixteen new characters to the English drama of his country ! " him . Did you never observe that dogs have not II . H ET . 60 . 97 BOSWELL'S LIFE OF JOHNSON .
... who for years was at the University of Oxford - a man who has added sixteen new characters to the English drama of his country ! " him . Did you never observe that dogs have not II . H ET . 60 . 97 BOSWELL'S LIFE OF JOHNSON .
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... and Mr. Smith . " Let me know what English books you read for your enter- tainment . You can never be wise unless you love reading . Do not imagine that I shall forget or forsake you ; ET . 61 . 115 BOSWELL S LIFE OF JOHNSON .
... and Mr. Smith . " Let me know what English books you read for your enter- tainment . You can never be wise unless you love reading . Do not imagine that I shall forget or forsake you ; ET . 61 . 115 BOSWELL S LIFE OF JOHNSON .
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... English government , he replied by saying , ' Let the authority of the English government perish , rather than be maintained by iniquity . Better would it be to restrain the turbulence of the natives by the authority of the sword , and ...
... English government , he replied by saying , ' Let the authority of the English government perish , rather than be maintained by iniquity . Better would it be to restrain the turbulence of the natives by the authority of the sword , and ...
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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...