Life of Samuel JohnsonScott, Foresman, 1923 - 563 pagina's |
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... religion . " This same problem he has recognized more pithily , more wittily in the words : " Sir , I have got no further than this : Every man has a right to utter what he thinks truth and every other man has a right to knock him down ...
... religion . " This same problem he has recognized more pithily , more wittily in the words : " Sir , I have got no further than this : Every man has a right to utter what he thinks truth and every other man has a right to knock him down ...
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... religions did not leave him in peace . " You do not know , " he once said , " what a Brahmin has to say for himself . " He relished honest men , thinking men , the free exchange of genuine opinions , and yet there was no more than the ...
... religions did not leave him in peace . " You do not know , " he once said , " what a Brahmin has to say for himself . " He relished honest men , thinking men , the free exchange of genuine opinions , and yet there was no more than the ...
Pagina 22
... tion ; but if a man tells me that he sees this , and in consternation calls to me to look at it , I pronounce him to be mad . " 1729 ] RELIGIOUS EXPERIENCES 23 The history of Johnson's mind 22 [ 1728 BOSWELL'S LIFE OF JOHNSON.
... tion ; but if a man tells me that he sees this , and in consternation calls to me to look at it , I pronounce him to be mad . " 1729 ] RELIGIOUS EXPERIENCES 23 The history of Johnson's mind 22 [ 1728 BOSWELL'S LIFE OF JOHNSON.
Pagina 23
James Boswell Herbert Vaughan Abbott. 1729 ] RELIGIOUS EXPERIENCES 23 The history of Johnson's mind as to religion is an important article . " Sunday , " said he , " was a heavy day with me when I was a boy . My mother confined me on ...
James Boswell Herbert Vaughan Abbott. 1729 ] RELIGIOUS EXPERIENCES 23 The history of Johnson's mind as to religion is an important article . " Sunday , " said he , " was a heavy day with me when I was a boy . My mother confined me on ...
Pagina 41
... religious wisdom . The vehicle which he chose was that of a periodical paper which he knew had been , upon former occasions , employed with great success . [ He ] was , I think , not very happy in the choice of his title - The Rambler ...
... religious wisdom . The vehicle which he chose was that of a periodical paper which he knew had been , upon former occasions , employed with great success . [ He ] was , I think , not very happy in the choice of his title - The Rambler ...
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