The Life of Samuel Johnson: Including a Journal of a Tour to the HebridesJohn Murray, Albermarle-Street, 1831 |
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Pagina xxxv
... truth , I have still kept in my mind that the whole truth is not always to be exposed . This , however , I have managed so as to occasion no diminution of the pleasure which my book should afford , though malignity may sometimes be ...
... truth , I have still kept in my mind that the whole truth is not always to be exposed . This , however , I have managed so as to occasion no diminution of the pleasure which my book should afford , though malignity may sometimes be ...
Pagina xl
... truth , the progress of the present work fur- nishes a striking instance . It was highly gratifying to me that my friend , Sir Joshua Reynolds , to whom it is inscribed , lived to peruse it , and to give the strongest testimony to its ...
... truth , the progress of the present work fur- nishes a striking instance . It was highly gratifying to me that my friend , Sir Joshua Reynolds , to whom it is inscribed , lived to peruse it , and to give the strongest testimony to its ...
Pagina lii
... truth ' . " What I consider as the peculiar value of the fol- lowing work , is the quantity it contains of Johnson's conversation , which is universally acknowledged to have been eminently instructive and entertaining ; and of which the ...
... truth ' . " What I consider as the peculiar value of the fol- lowing work , is the quantity it contains of Johnson's conversation , which is universally acknowledged to have been eminently instructive and entertaining ; and of which the ...
Pagina 1
... truth is , that the appellation of Gentleman , though now lost in the indiscriminate assumption of Esquire , was commonly taken by those who could not boast of gentility . His father was Michael Johnson , a native of Derbyshire , of ...
... truth is , that the appellation of Gentleman , though now lost in the indiscriminate assumption of Esquire , was commonly taken by those who could not boast of gentility . His father was Michael Johnson , a native of Derbyshire , of ...
Pagina 10
... truth was , that my father , having in the early part of his life contracted debts , never had trade sufficient to enable him to pay them , and to main- tain his family : he got something , but not enough . My father considered tea as ...
... truth was , that my father , having in the early part of his life contracted debts , never had trade sufficient to enable him to pay them , and to main- tain his family : he got something , but not enough . My father considered tea as ...
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