The Life of Samuel JohnsonModern Library, 1965 - 559 pagina's |
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Pagina 24
... took up " Law's Serious Call to a Holy Life , " expecting to find it a dull book , ( as such books generally are , ) and perhaps to laugh at it . But I found Law quite an overmatch for me ; and this was the first occasion of my thinking ...
... took up " Law's Serious Call to a Holy Life , " expecting to find it a dull book , ( as such books generally are , ) and perhaps to laugh at it . But I found Law quite an overmatch for me ; and this was the first occasion of my thinking ...
Pagina 35
... took it ; the peaceable and the quarrelsome . When I returned to Lichfield , after having been in London , my mother asked me , whether I was one of those who gave the wall , or those who took it . Now it is fixed that every man keeps ...
... took it ; the peaceable and the quarrelsome . When I returned to Lichfield , after having been in London , my mother asked me , whether I was one of those who gave the wall , or those who took it . Now it is fixed that every man keeps ...
Pagina 124
... took a sculler at the Temple - stairs , and set out for Greenwich . I asked him if he really thought a knowledge of the Greek and Latin languages an essential requisite to a good education . Johnson . Most cer- tainly , Sir ; for those ...
... took a sculler at the Temple - stairs , and set out for Greenwich . I asked him if he really thought a knowledge of the Greek and Latin languages an essential requisite to a good education . Johnson . Most cer- tainly , Sir ; for those ...
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