The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.Talboys and Wheeler, 1826 |
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Pagina 3
... true . A woman of fortune , being used to the handling of money , spends it judiciously : but a woman who gets the command of money for the first time upon her marriage , has such a gust in spending it , that she throws it away with ...
... true . A woman of fortune , being used to the handling of money , spends it judiciously : but a woman who gets the command of money for the first time upon her marriage , has such a gust in spending it , that she throws it away with ...
Pagina 11
... true ; for they have nothing good enough to keep a man of eminent learning with them for his life . In the foreign univer- sities , a professorship is a high thing . It is as much . almost as a man can make by his learning ; and ...
... true ; for they have nothing good enough to keep a man of eminent learning with them for his life . In the foreign univer- sities , a professorship is a high thing . It is as much . almost as a man can make by his learning ; and ...
Pagina 24
... true , in every material circumstance : -Shiels was the principal collector and digester of the materials for the work ; but as he was very raw in authorship , an indifferent writer in prose , and his language full of Scotticisms ...
... true , in every material circumstance : -Shiels was the principal collector and digester of the materials for the work ; but as he was very raw in authorship , an indifferent writer in prose , and his language full of Scotticisms ...
Pagina 27
... true , you have now shortened Mrs. Thrale's life , perhaps , some minutes , by accelerating her pulsation . ” On Thursday , April 11th , I dined with him at general Paoli's , in whose house I now resided , and where I had ever ...
... true , you have now shortened Mrs. Thrale's life , perhaps , some minutes , by accelerating her pulsation . ” On Thursday , April 11th , I dined with him at general Paoli's , in whose house I now resided , and where I had ever ...
Pagina 30
... true poetical genius , the power of viewing every thing in a poetical light . His fault is such a cloud of words sometimes , that the sense can hardly peep through . Shiels , who compiled Cibber's Lives of the Poets " , was one day ...
... true poetical genius , the power of viewing every thing in a poetical light . His fault is such a cloud of words sometimes , that the sense can hardly peep through . Shiels , who compiled Cibber's Lives of the Poets " , was one day ...
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