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Pagina 38
... Scotch purser in the navy . The ridicule consisted in applying Johnson's " words of large meaning , " to insignificant mat- ters ; as if one should put the armour of Goliath upon a dwarf . The contrast might be laughable ; but the ...
... Scotch purser in the navy . The ridicule consisted in applying Johnson's " words of large meaning , " to insignificant mat- ters ; as if one should put the armour of Goliath upon a dwarf . The contrast might be laughable ; but the ...
Pagina 52
... Scotch literati ; but on the present occasion he had very little opportunity of hearing them talk , for with an excess of prudence , for which Johnson afterwards found fault with them , they hardly opened their lips , and that only to ...
... Scotch literati ; but on the present occasion he had very little opportunity of hearing them talk , for with an excess of prudence , for which Johnson afterwards found fault with them , they hardly opened their lips , and that only to ...
Pagina 61
... Scotch judges , talked a great deal of such nonsense . I suffered him ; but I will not suffer you . " BOSWELL . " But , sir , does not Rous- seau talk such nonsense ? " JOHNSON . " True , sir ; but Rousseau knows he is talking nonsense ...
... Scotch judges , talked a great deal of such nonsense . I suffered him ; but I will not suffer you . " BOSWELL . " But , sir , does not Rous- seau talk such nonsense ? " JOHNSON . " True , sir ; but Rousseau knows he is talking nonsense ...
Pagina 64
... Scotch- men ; -JOHNSON . " Why , sir , that is because gardening is much more necessary amongst you than with us , which makes so many of your people learn it . It is all garden- ing with you . Things which grow wild here , must be ...
... Scotch- men ; -JOHNSON . " Why , sir , that is because gardening is much more necessary amongst you than with us , which makes so many of your people learn it . It is all garden- ing with you . Things which grow wild here , must be ...
Pagina 75
... Scotch company with a great deal of coarse jocularity at the expense of Dr. Johnson , imagining it would be acceptable . I felt this as not civil to me ; but sat very patiently till he had exhausted his merriment on that subject ; and ...
... Scotch company with a great deal of coarse jocularity at the expense of Dr. Johnson , imagining it would be acceptable . I felt this as not civil to me ; but sat very patiently till he had exhausted his merriment on that subject ; and ...
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