Life of Samuel JohnsonScott, Foresman, 1923 - 563 pagina's |
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Pagina 21
... considering whether he had an opportunity of knowing how to answer it . " Dr. Percy , the Bishop of Dromore , who was long intimately acquainted with Dr. Johnson , and has preserved a few anecdotes concerning him , informs me , that ...
... considering whether he had an opportunity of knowing how to answer it . " Dr. Percy , the Bishop of Dromore , who was long intimately acquainted with Dr. Johnson , and has preserved a few anecdotes concerning him , informs me , that ...
Pagina 23
... consider , not how much will make his present life easy , but to ask himself how much will make him easy at the hour of death . " His book develops this idea logically in regard to the minutest details of life . 2. An Athenian blockhead ...
... consider , not how much will make his present life easy , but to ask himself how much will make him easy at the hour of death . " His book develops this idea logically in regard to the minutest details of life . 2. An Athenian blockhead ...
Pagina 56
... consider me as owing that to a patron , which Providence has enabled me to do for myself . 1 . Translations will be found in the Glossary . 50 ne h d H 1755 ] CHESTERFIELD'S ATTITUDE 57. 2. One act of assistance . " Dr. Johnson when he ...
... consider me as owing that to a patron , which Providence has enabled me to do for myself . 1 . Translations will be found in the Glossary . 50 ne h d H 1755 ] CHESTERFIELD'S ATTITUDE 57. 2. One act of assistance . " Dr. Johnson when he ...
Pagina 71
... considers me as one of the external and accidental things that are to be taken and left without emotion . " Johnson , 1771. " When you complained for want of oysters , I ordered you a barrel weekly for a month ; you sent me word sooner ...
... considers me as one of the external and accidental things that are to be taken and left without emotion . " Johnson , 1771. " When you complained for want of oysters , I ordered you a barrel weekly for a month ; you sent me word sooner ...
Pagina 74
... considering it as a kind of duty to stand by it . He accordingly entered warmly into its in- terests , and upon every occasion talked of the dockers , as the inhabitants of the new town were called , as upstarts and aliens . Plymouth is ...
... considering it as a kind of duty to stand by it . He accordingly entered warmly into its in- terests , and upon every occasion talked of the dockers , as the inhabitants of the new town were called , as upstarts and aliens . Plymouth is ...
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