Anecdotes of Samuel JohnsonUniversity Press, 1932 - 196 oldal |
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... reason be led to complain that so much has been said about himself ; for numberless informers but distract or cloud information , as glasses which multiply will for the most part be found also to obscure . Of a life , too , which for ...
... reason be led to complain that so much has been said about himself ; for numberless informers but distract or cloud information , as glasses which multiply will for the most part be found also to obscure . Of a life , too , which for ...
58. oldal
... reason our hearts rebelled a little against his severity , was chiefly because it came from a living mouth . - Books were invented to take off the odium of immediate superiority , and soften the rigour of duties prescribed by the ...
... reason our hearts rebelled a little against his severity , was chiefly because it came from a living mouth . - Books were invented to take off the odium of immediate superiority , and soften the rigour of duties prescribed by the ...
186. oldal
... reason of health , peace , and pecuniary circumstances , to retire to Bath , where I knew Mr. Johnson would not follow me , and where I could for that reason command some little portion of time for my own use ; a thing impossible while ...
... reason of health , peace , and pecuniary circumstances , to retire to Bath , where I knew Mr. Johnson would not follow me , and where I could for that reason command some little portion of time for my own use ; a thing impossible while ...
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