The life of Samuel Johnson ... including A journal of a tour to the Hebrides. With additions and notes, by J.W. Croker, Том 21831 |
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... poor friends as might else have gone without one . He had little now to conflict with but what he called his morbid me- lancholy , which , though oppressive , had its inter- missions , and left him the free exercise of all his faculties ...
... poor friends as might else have gone without one . He had little now to conflict with but what he called his morbid me- lancholy , which , though oppressive , had its inter- missions , and left him the free exercise of all his faculties ...
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... poor and so contemptible , who does not think there is somebody still poorer , and still more contemptible . " As my stay in London at this time was very short , I had not many opportunities of being with Dr. John- son ; but I felt my ...
... poor and so contemptible , who does not think there is somebody still poorer , and still more contemptible . " As my stay in London at this time was very short , I had not many opportunities of being with Dr. John- son ; but I felt my ...
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... poor Turk must be a Mahometan , just as a poor Englishman must be a Christian ? " JOHNSON . " Why , yes , sir ; and what then ? This now is such stuff1 as I used to talk to my mother , when I first began to think myself a clever fellow ...
... poor Turk must be a Mahometan , just as a poor Englishman must be a Christian ? " JOHNSON . " Why , yes , sir ; and what then ? This now is such stuff1 as I used to talk to my mother , when I first began to think myself a clever fellow ...
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... poor productions . - ED . ] 2 Dr. Johnson had the honour of contributing his assistance towards the forma- tion of this library ; for I have read a long letter from him to Mr. Barnard , giving the most masterly instructions on the ...
... poor productions . - ED . ] 2 Dr. Johnson had the honour of contributing his assistance towards the forma- tion of this library ; for I have read a long letter from him to Mr. Barnard , giving the most masterly instructions on the ...
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... poor hands , 1 [ No doubt the popular Catechism and " Abridgement of Sacred History " of J. F. Ostervald , an eminent Swiss divine . He died in 1747 , in the 84th year of his age.-ED. ] 2 It is proper here to mention , that when I speak ...
... poor hands , 1 [ No doubt the popular Catechism and " Abridgement of Sacred History " of J. F. Ostervald , an eminent Swiss divine . He died in 1747 , in the 84th year of his age.-ED. ] 2 It is proper here to mention , that when I speak ...
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