The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Including a Journal of His Tour to the Hebrides;Henry G. Bohn, York Street, Covent Garden, 1846 |
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Pagina 87
... learning in France , because they have such a number of re- ligious establishments ; so many men who have nothing else to do but to study . I do not know this ; but I take it upon the common principles of chance . Where there are many ...
... learning in France , because they have such a number of re- ligious establishments ; so many men who have nothing else to do but to study . I do not know this ; but I take it upon the common principles of chance . Where there are many ...
Pagina 113
... learning , a most retentive memory , of the deepest and most unaffected piety and morality , mingled with those numerous weaknesses and prejudices , which his friends have kindly taken care to draw from their dread abode . ( 1 ) I ...
... learning , a most retentive memory , of the deepest and most unaffected piety and morality , mingled with those numerous weaknesses and prejudices , which his friends have kindly taken care to draw from their dread abode . ( 1 ) I ...
Pagina 125
... learning , in which that motley ludicrous species of composition may not be found . It is particularly droll in Low Dutch . The " Polemo - middinia " of Drummond , of Hawthorn- den , in which there is a jumble of many languages moulded ...
... learning , in which that motley ludicrous species of composition may not be found . It is particularly droll in Low Dutch . The " Polemo - middinia " of Drummond , of Hawthorn- den , in which there is a jumble of many languages moulded ...
Pagina 157
... learning , various knowledge , and discernment of character . This much may I be allowed to say of a man who was exceedingly obliging to me , and who lived with Dr. Johnson in as easy a manner as almost any of his very numerous ...
... learning , various knowledge , and discernment of character . This much may I be allowed to say of a man who was exceedingly obliging to me , and who lived with Dr. Johnson in as easy a manner as almost any of his very numerous ...
Pagina 198
... learning in their language than in any other , from the immense number of their characters . " JOHNSON . " It is only more difficult from its rudeness ; as there is more labour in hew- ing down a tree with a stone than with an axe ...
... learning in their language than in any other , from the immense number of their characters . " JOHNSON . " It is only more difficult from its rudeness ; as there is more labour in hew- ing down a tree with a stone than with an axe ...
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The Life of Samuel Johnson: Including a Journal of His Tour to the ..., Volume 7 James Boswell Volledige weergave - 1853 |
The Life of Samuel Johnson: Including a Journal of His Tour to the ..., Volume 7 James Boswell Volledige weergave - 1835 |
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