Boswell's Life of Johnson: Including Boswell's Journal of a Tour of the Hebrides, and Johnson's Diary of A Journey Into North Wales, Volume 4Harper, 1891 - Hebrides (Scotland) |
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... Aetat . 71. ] Idleness . II ' He would allow no settled indulgence of idleness upon principle , and always repelled every attempt to urge ex- cuses for it . A friend one day suggested , that it was not wholesome to study soon after ...
... Aetat . 71. ] Idleness . II ' He would allow no settled indulgence of idleness upon principle , and always repelled every attempt to urge ex- cuses for it . A friend one day suggested , that it was not wholesome to study soon after ...
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... Aetat . 71. ] Johnson studies Low Dutch . 25 liking to , from a notion that it is above his reach . If that be the case , the child will soon find it out and desist ; if not , he of course gains the instruction ; which is so much the ...
... Aetat . 71. ] Johnson studies Low Dutch . 25 liking to , from a notion that it is above his reach . If that be the case , the child will soon find it out and desist ; if not , he of course gains the instruction ; which is so much the ...
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... Chris- tian Morals , sect . xxi . 5 " Nec te quæsiveris extra . ' Persius , Sat. i . 7. We may compare Milton's line , ' In himself was all his state . ' Paradise Lost , v . 353 . ' At Aetat . 71. ] Richardson's conversation . 33 ' At.
... Chris- tian Morals , sect . xxi . 5 " Nec te quæsiveris extra . ' Persius , Sat. i . 7. We may compare Milton's line , ' In himself was all his state . ' Paradise Lost , v . 353 . ' At Aetat . 71. ] Richardson's conversation . 33 ' At.
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... Aetat . 71. ] Richardson's conversation . 33 ' At the time when his pension was granted to him , he said , with a noble literary ambition , " Had this happened twenty years ago , I should have gone to Constantinople to learn Arabick ...
... Aetat . 71. ] Richardson's conversation . 33 ' At the time when his pension was granted to him , he said , with a noble literary ambition , " Had this happened twenty years ago , I should have gone to Constantinople to learn Arabick ...
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... some solace of the miseries of life , from consciousness of the delicacy with which he felt , and the eloquence with which he bewailed them . ' See ante , April 8 , 1780 . ' A man Aetat . 71. ] Partial madness often unnoticed . '
... some solace of the miseries of life , from consciousness of the delicacy with which he felt , and the eloquence with which he bewailed them . ' See ante , April 8 , 1780 . ' A man Aetat . 71. ] Partial madness often unnoticed . '
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