The Life of Samuel JohnsonJ. M. Dent, 1907 - 1172 pagina's |
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Pagina 10
... manner we find them represented in the Poets . The people would not have suffered it . They disputed with good humour upon their fanciful theories , because they were not interested in the truth of them : when a man has nothing to lose ...
... manner we find them represented in the Poets . The people would not have suffered it . They disputed with good humour upon their fanciful theories , because they were not interested in the truth of them : when a man has nothing to lose ...
Pagina 11
... manner ; but his arguments preponderated so much in favour of the benefit which a boy of good parts might receive at one of them , that I have reason to believe Mr. Murray was very much influenced by what he had heard to - day , in his ...
... manner ; but his arguments preponderated so much in favour of the benefit which a boy of good parts might receive at one of them , that I have reason to believe Mr. Murray was very much influenced by what he had heard to - day , in his ...
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... manner , a man who is to get nothing by teaching , will not exert himself . Gresham - College was intended as a place of instruction for London ; able pro- fessors were to read lectures gratis , they contrived to have no scholars ...
... manner , a man who is to get nothing by teaching , will not exert himself . Gresham - College was intended as a place of instruction for London ; able pro- fessors were to read lectures gratis , they contrived to have no scholars ...
Pagina 16
... manner . " I lately , ( said he , ) received a letter from the East - Indies , from a gentle- man whom I formerly knew very well ; he had returned from that country with a handsome fortune , as it was reckoned , before means were found ...
... manner . " I lately , ( said he , ) received a letter from the East - Indies , from a gentle- man whom I formerly knew very well ; he had returned from that country with a handsome fortune , as it was reckoned , before means were found ...
Pagina 18
... manner ; and at Oxford he said , " he wished he had learned to play at cards . " The truth , however , is , that he loved to display his ingenuity in argument ; and therefore would sometimes in conversation maintain opinions which he ...
... manner ; and at Oxford he said , " he wished he had learned to play at cards . " The truth , however , is , that he loved to display his ingenuity in argument ; and therefore would sometimes in conversation maintain opinions which he ...
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