The Life of Samuel Johnson: Including the Tour to the HebridesHenry Holt & Company, 1882 - 689 pagina's |
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Pagina 8
... thought idleness , and was scolded by his father for his want of steady application . He had no settled plan of life , nor looked forward at all , but merely lived from day to day . Yet he read a great deal in a desultory manner ...
... thought idleness , and was scolded by his father for his want of steady application . He had no settled plan of life , nor looked forward at all , but merely lived from day to day . Yet he read a great deal in a desultory manner ...
Pagina 11
... thoughts ; though , with the just sentiments of a conscien- tious Christian , he lamented that his practice of its ... thought that he did himself injustice in his account of what he had read , and that he must have been speaking with ...
... thoughts ; though , with the just sentiments of a conscien- tious Christian , he lamented that his practice of its ... thought that he did himself injustice in his account of what he had read , and that he must have been speaking with ...
Pagina 13
... thoughts of leaving to it his house at Lichfield ; but his friends who were about him very properly dissuaded him ... thought the defects of his own college , and I have , from the information of Dr. Taylor , a very strong instance of ...
... thoughts of leaving to it his house at Lichfield ; but his friends who were about him very properly dissuaded him ... thought the defects of his own college , and I have , from the information of Dr. Taylor , a very strong instance of ...
Pagina 16
... thought an abridgment and translation of it from the French into English might be an useful and profitable publication , Mr. Warren and Mr. Hector joined in urging him to undertake it . He accordingly agreed ; and the book not being to ...
... thought an abridgment and translation of it from the French into English might be an useful and profitable publication , Mr. Warren and Mr. Hector joined in urging him to undertake it . He accordingly agreed ; and the book not being to ...
Pagina 27
... thought it creditable to have a share in it . The fact is , that he bargained for the whole property of it , for which he gave Johnson ten guineas ; who told me , " I might perhaps have accepted of less ; but that Paul Whitehead had a ...
... thought it creditable to have a share in it . The fact is , that he bargained for the whole property of it , for which he gave Johnson ten guineas ; who told me , " I might perhaps have accepted of less ; but that Paul Whitehead had a ...
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