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Pagina xxi
... talk at such times as I had the good fortune to be in his company ; and , without doubt , if his discourse at other periods had been collected with the same attention , the whole tenour of what he uttered would have been found equally ...
... talk at such times as I had the good fortune to be in his company ; and , without doubt , if his discourse at other periods had been collected with the same attention , the whole tenour of what he uttered would have been found equally ...
Pagina xxii
... talk Johnson . " Yes , I may add , I have Johnsonised the land ; and I trust they will not only talk , but think , Johnson . To enumerate those to whom I have been thus indebted would be tediously ostentatious . I cannot , however , but ...
... talk Johnson . " Yes , I may add , I have Johnsonised the land ; and I trust they will not only talk , but think , Johnson . To enumerate those to whom I have been thus indebted would be tediously ostentatious . I cannot , however , but ...
Pagina xxxii
... talk , ' so he expresses it , ' of a good man ought to be regarded ; ' the most superfluous things he saith are always of some value . And other ancient authors have the same phrase , nearly in the same sense . " Of one thing I am ...
... talk , ' so he expresses it , ' of a good man ought to be regarded ; ' the most superfluous things he saith are always of some value . And other ancient authors have the same phrase , nearly in the same sense . " Of one thing I am ...
Pagina 3
... talk of his affairs ; and my mother , being unacquainted with books , cared not to talk of anything else . Had my mother been more literate , they had been better companions . She might have sometimes introduced her unwelcome topic with ...
... talk of his affairs ; and my mother , being unacquainted with books , cared not to talk of anything else . Had my mother been more literate , they had been better companions . She might have sometimes introduced her unwelcome topic with ...
Pagina 6
... talking of his children . " 1 Young Johnson had the misfortune to be much afflicted with the scrofula , or king's evil , which disfigured a countenance naturally well formed , and hurt his visual nerves so much , that he did not see at ...
... talking of his children . " 1 Young Johnson had the misfortune to be much afflicted with the scrofula , or king's evil , which disfigured a countenance naturally well formed , and hurt his visual nerves so much , that he did not see at ...
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