The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: Including a Journal of His Tour to the Hebrides, Volume 3Claxton, Remsen, & Haffelfinger, 1878 |
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Pagina 13
... remark are unquestion- able ; yet , had not Dr. Johnson made him advert to the considera- tion , that he who does not understand a language cannot know that something which is recited to him is in that language , he might have believed ...
... remark are unquestion- able ; yet , had not Dr. Johnson made him advert to the considera- tion , that he who does not understand a language cannot know that something which is recited to him is in that language , he might have believed ...
Pagina 17
... remarked , that " to see a man come up with a formal air , and a Latin line , when we had no fatigue and no danger was provoking . " I told him , he was not sensible of the danger , having lain under cover in the boat during the storm ...
... remarked , that " to see a man come up with a formal air , and a Latin line , when we had no fatigue and no danger was provoking . " I told him , he was not sensible of the danger , having lain under cover in the boat during the storm ...
Pagina 20
... remark appears to me to be well founded , and will account for many of the celebrated deathbed sayings which are recorded . On one of the evenings at my house , when he told me that Lord Lovat boasted to an English nobleman that ...
... remark appears to me to be well founded , and will account for many of the celebrated deathbed sayings which are recorded . On one of the evenings at my house , when he told me that Lord Lovat boasted to an English nobleman that ...
Pagina 36
... remark upon that sub . ject : - " I have seen many a bear led by a man ; but I never before saw a man led by a bear . " -B . The reader will , however , hereafter see that the repetition of this observation as to Mrs. Boswell's feelings ...
... remark upon that sub . ject : - " I have seen many a bear led by a man ; but I never before saw a man led by a bear . " -B . The reader will , however , hereafter see that the repetition of this observation as to Mrs. Boswell's feelings ...
Pagina 48
... remarks . And I find concessere columnæ , the book . sellers expect another book . I am impatient to see your Tour to Scotland and the Hebrides . ' Might you not send me a copy by the post as soon as it is printed off ? " JETTER 192 ...
... remarks . And I find concessere columnæ , the book . sellers expect another book . I am impatient to see your Tour to Scotland and the Hebrides . ' Might you not send me a copy by the post as soon as it is printed off ? " JETTER 192 ...
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