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... - drinking . Pleasure . Goldsmith . Charles the Fifth . -d - - Best English Sermons . teeisin . - - " Seeing Scotland . " Delany's " Observations on Swift . " - - Absen- 49 CHAPTER III . 1778 . Horace's Villa . Country Life.
... - drinking . Pleasure . Goldsmith . Charles the Fifth . -d - - Best English Sermons . teeisin . - - " Seeing Scotland . " Delany's " Observations on Swift . " - - Absen- 49 CHAPTER III . 1778 . Horace's Villa . Country Life.
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... observed , were better than his , I could not by any means equal him in representing visible objects . I said , the difference between us in this respect was as that between a man who has a bad instrument , but plays well on it , and a ...
... observed , were better than his , I could not by any means equal him in representing visible objects . I said , the difference between us in this respect was as that between a man who has a bad instrument , but plays well on it , and a ...
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... observation , that the differences among Christians are really of no consequence " For instance , " said he , " if a Protestant objects to ( 1 ) The gardener at Ilam told me that it was Johnson him- self who had made this experiment ...
... observation , that the differences among Christians are really of no consequence " For instance , " said he , " if a Protestant objects to ( 1 ) The gardener at Ilam told me that it was Johnson him- self who had made this experiment ...
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... observed , " I am , however , generally for trying , ' Nothing venture , nothing have . ' " JOHN- SON . " Very true , Sir ; but I have always been more afraid of failing , than hopeful of success . " And , in- deed , though he had all ...
... observed , " I am , however , generally for trying , ' Nothing venture , nothing have . ' " JOHN- SON . " Very true , Sir ; but I have always been more afraid of failing , than hopeful of success . " And , in- deed , though he had all ...
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... observed , he instantly put another expression in its place . Taylor said , a small bull - dog was as good as a large one . JOHNSON . " No , Sir : for , in pro- portion to his size , he has strength : and your argu- ment would prove ...
... observed , he instantly put another expression in its place . Taylor said , a small bull - dog was as good as a large one . JOHNSON . " No , Sir : for , in pro- portion to his size , he has strength : and your argu- ment would prove ...
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