Anecdotes of the Late Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: During the Last Twenty Years of His LifeT. Cadell, 1786 - 306 страница |
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... most learning driven into their heads , any more than I can per- fuade myself to confider the river Jenifca as fuperior to the Nile , be- cause the first receives near feventy tributary streams in the course of its unmarked progrefs to ...
... most learning driven into their heads , any more than I can per- fuade myself to confider the river Jenifca as fuperior to the Nile , be- cause the first receives near feventy tributary streams in the course of its unmarked progrefs to ...
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... most people , and had never feen a bad road in his life . The two brothers did not , however , much delight in each other's company , being always rivals for the mother's fondness ; and many of the fevere reflections on domeftic life in ...
... most people , and had never feen a bad road in his life . The two brothers did not , however , much delight in each other's company , being always rivals for the mother's fondness ; and many of the fevere reflections on domeftic life in ...
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... most pa- rents play with their children , of fhew- ing off their newly - acquired accomplish- ments , disgusted Mr. Johnson beyond expreffion ; he had been treated so him- felf , he faid , till he abfolutely loathed his father's ...
... most pa- rents play with their children , of fhew- ing off their newly - acquired accomplish- ments , disgusted Mr. Johnson beyond expreffion ; he had been treated so him- felf , he faid , till he abfolutely loathed his father's ...
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... most wo- men who pride themselves on their œco- nomy . They did not however , as I could understand , live ill together on the whole : " my father ( fays he ) could al- ways take his horse and ride away for orders when things went badly ...
... most wo- men who pride themselves on their œco- nomy . They did not however , as I could understand , live ill together on the whole : " my father ( fays he ) could al- ways take his horse and ride away for orders when things went badly ...
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... most wished for ;. but from the pain which guilt had given . him , he now began to deduce the foul's .. immortality , which was the point that belief first stopped at ; and from that moment refolving to be a Chriftian , became one of ...
... most wished for ;. but from the pain which guilt had given . him , he now began to deduce the foul's .. immortality , which was the point that belief first stopped at ; and from that moment refolving to be a Chriftian , became one of ...
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