The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.W. P. Ninno, Hay & Mitchell, 1890 - 562 pagina's |
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Pagina iii
... truth is , that to immortalize Johnson , Boswell committed suicide . He is not perhaps the greatest , but he is ... truths are too true ; ' but you will never accuse him of littleness or falsehood . He may talk commonplace , and ...
... truth is , that to immortalize Johnson , Boswell committed suicide . He is not perhaps the greatest , but he is ... truths are too true ; ' but you will never accuse him of littleness or falsehood . He may talk commonplace , and ...
Pagina xi
... truth , I have still kept in my mind that the whole truth is not always to be exposed . This , however , I have managed so as to occasion no diminution of the pleasure which my book should afford though malig- nity may sometimes be ...
... truth , I have still kept in my mind that the whole truth is not always to be exposed . This , however , I have managed so as to occasion no diminution of the pleasure which my book should afford though malig- nity may sometimes be ...
Pagina 2
... be paid to knowledge , to virtue , and to truth . ' [ Rambler , No. 60. ] What I consider as the peculiar value of the Pope . anything , however slight , which my illustrious friend thought 2 THE LIFE OF SAMUEL JOHNSON .
... be paid to knowledge , to virtue , and to truth . ' [ Rambler , No. 60. ] What I consider as the peculiar value of the Pope . anything , however slight , which my illustrious friend thought 2 THE LIFE OF SAMUEL JOHNSON .
Pagina 4
... truth is , that the appellation of Gentleman , though now lost in the indiscriminate assump- tion of Esquire , was commonly taken by those who could not boast of gentility . His father was Michael Johnson , a native of Derbyshire , of ...
... truth is , that the appellation of Gentleman , though now lost in the indiscriminate assump- tion of Esquire , was commonly taken by those who could not boast of gentility . His father was Michael Johnson , a native of Derbyshire , of ...
Pagina 6
... truth of which I am to refute upon his own authority . It is told that , when a child of three years old , he chanced to tread upon a duckling , the eleventh of a brood , and killed it ; upon which , it is said , he dictated to his ...
... truth of which I am to refute upon his own authority . It is told that , when a child of three years old , he chanced to tread upon a duckling , the eleventh of a brood , and killed it ; upon which , it is said , he dictated to his ...
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