The Life of Samuel JohnsonModern Library, 1965 - 559 pagina's |
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Pagina 35
James Boswell. in London , there were two sets of people , those who gave the wall , and those who took it ; the peaceable and the quarrelsome . When I returned to Lichfield , after having been in London , my mother asked me , whether I ...
James Boswell. in London , there were two sets of people , those who gave the wall , and those who took it ; the peaceable and the quarrelsome . When I returned to Lichfield , after having been in London , my mother asked me , whether I ...
Pagina 329
... London , as when I wrote to you last . I am happy to find you had such an agreeable meeting with your old friend Dr. Johnson ; I have no doubt your stock is much increased by the interview ; few men , nay I may say , scarcely any man ...
... London , as when I wrote to you last . I am happy to find you had such an agreeable meeting with your old friend Dr. Johnson ; I have no doubt your stock is much increased by the interview ; few men , nay I may say , scarcely any man ...
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... London is nothing to some people ; but to a man whose pleasure is intel- lectual , London is the place . And there is no place where oeconomy can be so well practised as in London . More can be had here for the money , even by ladies ...
... London is nothing to some people ; but to a man whose pleasure is intel- lectual , London is the place . And there is no place where oeconomy can be so well practised as in London . More can be had here for the money , even by ladies ...
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