The life of Samuel Johnson. Copious notes by Malone, Zväzok 11821 |
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Strana 9
... expect little intelligence ; for the incidents which give excellence to biography are of a volatile and evanescent kind , such as soon escape the memory , and are rarely transmitted by tradition .. We know how few can pourtray a living ...
... expect little intelligence ; for the incidents which give excellence to biography are of a volatile and evanescent kind , such as soon escape the memory , and are rarely transmitted by tradition .. We know how few can pourtray a living ...
Strana 19
... expect to be asked . Now , sir , if a boy could answer every question , there would be no need of a master to teach him . " It is , however , but justice to the memory of Mr. Hunter to mention , that though he might err in being too ...
... expect to be asked . Now , sir , if a boy could answer every question , there would be no need of a master to teach him . " It is , however , but justice to the memory of Mr. Hunter to mention , that though he might err in being too ...
Strana 39
... did not much think against it ; and this lasted till I went to Oxford , where it would not be suffered . When at Oxford , I took up Law's Serious Call to a Holy Life , ' expecting to find it a dull book Etat . 20.1 DR . JOHNSON . 39.
... did not much think against it ; and this lasted till I went to Oxford , where it would not be suffered . When at Oxford , I took up Law's Serious Call to a Holy Life , ' expecting to find it a dull book Etat . 20.1 DR . JOHNSON . 39.
Strana 40
James Boswell Edmond Malone. Life , ' expecting to find it a dull book , ( as such books generally are , ) and perhaps to laugh at it . But I found Law quite an overmatch for me ; and this was the first occasion of my thinking in earnest ...
James Boswell Edmond Malone. Life , ' expecting to find it a dull book , ( as such books generally are , ) and perhaps to laugh at it . But I found Law quite an overmatch for me ; and this was the first occasion of my thinking in earnest ...
Strana 58
... expect it . Your late offert gives me no reason to distrust your generosity . If you engage in any literary projects besides this paper , I have other designs to impart , if I could be secure from having others reap the advantage of ...
... expect it . Your late offert gives me no reason to distrust your generosity . If you engage in any literary projects besides this paper , I have other designs to impart , if I could be secure from having others reap the advantage of ...
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