Boswell's Life of Johnson, 1. kötetTimes Book Club, 1912 |
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xxiii. oldal
... doubt that Canada is really ours . Such is the weight of common testimony . How much stronger are the evidences of the Christian religion . ' This may not be very close reasoning or very con- vincing argumentation , but its crescendo is ...
... doubt that Canada is really ours . Such is the weight of common testimony . How much stronger are the evidences of the Christian religion . ' This may not be very close reasoning or very con- vincing argumentation , but its crescendo is ...
xxxi. oldal
... doubts I at any time entertained have been entirely removed by the very favourable reception with which it has been honoured . That reception has excited my best exertions to render my book more perfect ; and in this endeavour I have ...
... doubts I at any time entertained have been entirely removed by the very favourable reception with which it has been honoured . That reception has excited my best exertions to render my book more perfect ; and in this endeavour I have ...
xxxiii. oldal
James Boswell Augustine Birrell. fortune to be in his company ; and , without doubt , if his discourse at other periods had been collected with the same attention , the whole tenor of what he uttered would have been found equally ...
James Boswell Augustine Birrell. fortune to be in his company ; and , without doubt , if his discourse at other periods had been collected with the same attention , the whole tenor of what he uttered would have been found equally ...
xxxvi. oldal
... doubt it will be found not less perfect than the former edition ; the greatest care having been taken , by correctness and elegance , to do justice to one of the most instructive and entertaining works in the English Language . EDM ...
... doubt it will be found not less perfect than the former edition ; the greatest care having been taken , by correctness and elegance , to do justice to one of the most instructive and entertaining works in the English Language . EDM ...
2. oldal
... doubt I should not have been very prompt to gratify Sir John Hawkins with any compliment in his lifetime , I do now frankly acknowledge that , in my opinion , his volume , however inadequate and improper as a life of Dr. Johnson , and ...
... doubt I should not have been very prompt to gratify Sir John Hawkins with any compliment in his lifetime , I do now frankly acknowledge that , in my opinion , his volume , however inadequate and improper as a life of Dr. Johnson , and ...
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