The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.W. P. Ninno, Hay & Mitchell, 1890 - 562 pagina's |
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Pagina xi
... conversation , your true polite- ness , by which you are so amiable in private society , and that enlarged hospitality which has long made your house a common centre of union for the great , the accomplished , the learned , and the ...
... conversation , your true polite- ness , by which you are so amiable in private society , and that enlarged hospitality which has long made your house a common centre of union for the great , the accomplished , the learned , and the ...
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... conversation of a celebrated man , if his talents have been exerted in conversation , will best display his character , is , I trust , too well established in the judgment of mankind to be at all shaken by a sneering observation of Mr ...
... conversation of a celebrated man , if his talents have been exerted in conversation , will best display his character , is , I trust , too well established in the judgment of mankind to be at all shaken by a sneering observation of Mr ...
Pagina 13
... conversation which I had with him several years ago ; and he expounded it thus : ' If , ' said he , ' a man tells me that he is grievously disturbed , for that he imagines he sees a ruffian coming against him with a drawn sword , though ...
... conversation which I had with him several years ago ; and he expounded it thus : ' If , ' said he , ' a man tells me that he is grievously disturbed , for that he imagines he sees a ruffian coming against him with a drawn sword , though ...
Pagina 36
... conversation , such thoughts were sure to rush into his mind ; and for this reason , any company , any employment what- ever , he preferred to being alone . The great business of his life , he said , was to escape from himself ; this ...
... conversation , such thoughts were sure to rush into his mind ; and for this reason , any company , any employment what- ever , he preferred to being alone . The great business of his life , he said , was to escape from himself ; this ...
Pagina 39
... conversation . This essay is a short but masterly performance . We find him , in No. 13 of his Rambler , censuring a profli- gate sentiment in that ' Account , ' and again insisting upon it strenuously in conversation . ' An Account of ...
... conversation . This essay is a short but masterly performance . We find him , in No. 13 of his Rambler , censuring a profli- gate sentiment in that ' Account , ' and again insisting upon it strenuously in conversation . ' An Account of ...
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