Life of JohnsonOxford University Press, 1980 - 1492 страници This minute account of the life of the great eighteenth-century thinker and writer is probably the most famous biography in the English language. |
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... observed , to excite the affections of the common people , who were sunk in languor and lethargy , and therefore he supposed that the new concomitants of methodism might probably produce so desirable an effect . The mind , like the body ...
... observed , to excite the affections of the common people , who were sunk in languor and lethargy , and therefore he supposed that the new concomitants of methodism might probably produce so desirable an effect . The mind , like the body ...
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... observed , " it was a most mortifying reflexion for any man to consider , what he had done , compared with what he might have done . " ' He said few people had intellectual resources sufficient to forego the pleasures of wine . They ...
... observed , " it was a most mortifying reflexion for any man to consider , what he had done , compared with what he might have done . " ' He said few people had intellectual resources sufficient to forego the pleasures of wine . They ...
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... observed , that in most fables the animals introduced seldom talk in character . ' For instance , ( said he , ) the fable of the little fishes , who saw birds fly over their heads , and envying them , petitioned Jupiter to be changed ...
... observed , that in most fables the animals introduced seldom talk in character . ' For instance , ( said he , ) the fable of the little fishes , who saw birds fly over their heads , and envying them , petitioned Jupiter to be changed ...
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