Boswell's Life of JohnsonHumphrey Milford, Oxford University Press, 1922 |
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... attention to external elegance of manners . But it must , at the same time , be allowed , that they contain many good pre- cepts of conduct , and much genuine information upon life and manners , very happily expressed ; and that there ...
... attention to external elegance of manners . But it must , at the same time , be allowed , that they contain many good pre- cepts of conduct , and much genuine information upon life and manners , very happily expressed ; and that there ...
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... attention by a person of the first eminence in the age in which he lived , whose company has been universally courted , I am justified in availing myself of the usual privilege of a Dedication , when I mention that there has been a long ...
... attention by a person of the first eminence in the age in which he lived , whose company has been universally courted , I am justified in availing myself of the usual privilege of a Dedication , when I mention that there has been a long ...
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... attention to incidents which the credulous relate with eager satisfaction , and the more scrupulous or witty en- quirer considers only as topicks of ridicule : Yet there is a traditional story of the infant Hercules of toryism , so ...
... attention to incidents which the credulous relate with eager satisfaction , and the more scrupulous or witty en- quirer considers only as topicks of ridicule : Yet there is a traditional story of the infant Hercules of toryism , so ...
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... attention and perceptive quickness made him see and distinguish all manner of objects , whether of nature or of art , with a nicety that is rarely to be found . When he and I were travelling in the Highlands of Scotland , and I pointed ...
... attention and perceptive quickness made him see and distinguish all manner of objects , whether of nature or of art , with a nicety that is rarely to be found . When he and I were travelling in the Highlands of Scotland , and I pointed ...
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... attention directed to the arrangement , to the style , and other excellencies of composition ; that the mind being thus engaged by an amusing variety of objects , may not grow weary . ' He communicated to me the following particulars ...
... attention directed to the arrangement , to the style , and other excellencies of composition ; that the mind being thus engaged by an amusing variety of objects , may not grow weary . ' He communicated to me the following particulars ...
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