The Life of Samuel Johnson, Volume 7Henry G. Bohn, 1848 |
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... respect was as that between a man who has a bad instrument , but plays well on it , and a man who has a good instrument , on which he can play very imperfectly . I recollect a very fine amphitheatre , surrounded with hills covered with ...
... respect was as that between a man who has a bad instrument , but plays well on it , and a man who has a good instrument , on which he can play very imperfectly . I recollect a very fine amphitheatre , surrounded with hills covered with ...
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... respect for rank , no man ever less courted the favour of the great . 66 During this interview at Ashbourne , Johnson seemed to be more uniformly social , cheerful , and alert , than I had almost ever seen him . He was prompt on great ...
... respect for rank , no man ever less courted the favour of the great . 66 During this interview at Ashbourne , Johnson seemed to be more uniformly social , cheerful , and alert , than I had almost ever seen him . He was prompt on great ...
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... respect to the slave trade . For I will resolutely say , that his unfavourable notion of it was owing to prejudice , and imperfect or false information . The wild and dangerous attempt which has for some time been persisted in to obtain ...
... respect to the slave trade . For I will resolutely say , that his unfavourable notion of it was owing to prejudice , and imperfect or false information . The wild and dangerous attempt which has for some time been persisted in to obtain ...
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... respecting America . We were fatigued by the contest , which was pro- duced by my want of caution ; and he was not then in the humour to slide into easy and cheerful talk . It therefore so happened , that we were after an hour or two ...
... respecting America . We were fatigued by the contest , which was pro- duced by my want of caution ; and he was not then in the humour to slide into easy and cheerful talk . It therefore so happened , that we were after an hour or two ...
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... respect , and to the credit of Scotland ; for it went upon a much broader ground than the case of So- merset , which was decided in England ( 1 ) ; being truly the general question , whether a perpetual ob- ligation of service to one ...
... respect , and to the credit of Scotland ; for it went upon a much broader ground than the case of So- merset , which was decided in England ( 1 ) ; being truly the general question , whether a perpetual ob- ligation of service to one ...
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