Boswell's Life of Johnson: Including Boswell's Journal of Atour to the Hebrides and Johnson's Diary of a Journey Into North Wales, Том 3; Томове 1776–1780Clarendon Press, 1887 |
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... mind which is always jealous of appearing too compliant . On Sunday , March 31 , I called on him , and shewed him as a curiosity which I had discovered , his Translation of Lobo's Account of Abyssinia , which Sir John Pringle had lent ...
... mind which is always jealous of appearing too compliant . On Sunday , March 31 , I called on him , and shewed him as a curiosity which I had discovered , his Translation of Lobo's Account of Abyssinia , which Sir John Pringle had lent ...
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... mind ; but our primary consideration would be to take care of ourselves . We should knock him down first , and pity ... mind , that it always takes hold of every mind that ap- proaches it ; and as it is wonderfully fortified and ...
... mind ; but our primary consideration would be to take care of ourselves . We should knock him down first , and pity ... mind , that it always takes hold of every mind that ap- proaches it ; and as it is wonderfully fortified and ...
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... mind , and which he was wont to produce quite unexpectedly in a very entertaining manner . ' I lately , ( said he , ) received a letter from the East Indies , from a gentleman whom I formerly knew very well ; he had returned from that ...
... mind , and which he was wont to produce quite unexpectedly in a very entertaining manner . ' I lately , ( said he , ) received a letter from the East Indies , from a gentleman whom I formerly knew very well ; he had returned from that ...
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... mind than hitherto . Thus this Easter he re- cords , ' I had at church some radia- tions of comfort .... When I received , some tender images struck me . I was so mollified by the concluding address to our Saviour that I could not utter ...
... mind than hitherto . Thus this Easter he re- cords , ' I had at church some radia- tions of comfort .... When I received , some tender images struck me . I was so mollified by the concluding address to our Saviour that I could not utter ...
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... mind is subject to the same imperfection . The passions are the great movers of human actions ; but they are mixed with such impurities , that it is necessary they should be purged or refined by means of terrour and pity . For instance ...
... mind is subject to the same imperfection . The passions are the great movers of human actions ; but they are mixed with such impurities , that it is necessary they should be purged or refined by means of terrour and pity . For instance ...
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