The Life of Samuel JohnsonWilliam P. Nimmo, 1873 - 576 pages |
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... learning , was an excellent bio- grapher . His contributions to my collection are highly estimable ; and as he had a true relish of my Tour to the Hebrides , I trust I should now have been gratified with a larger share of his kind ...
... learning , was an excellent bio- grapher . His contributions to my collection are highly estimable ; and as he had a true relish of my Tour to the Hebrides , I trust I should now have been gratified with a larger share of his kind ...
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... learning . His curiosity having been thus excited , he sat down with avidity , and read a great part of the book . What he read during these two years , he told me , was not works of mere amusement , ' not voyages and travels , but all ...
... learning . His curiosity having been thus excited , he sat down with avidity , and read a great part of the book . What he read during these two years , he told me , was not works of mere amusement , ' not voyages and travels , but all ...
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... learning will ever contemplate it with veneration . One day , while he was sitting in it quite alone , Dr. Panting , then master of the college , whom he called ' a fine Jacobite fellow , ' overheard him uttering this soliloquy in his ...
... learning will ever contemplate it with veneration . One day , while he was sitting in it quite alone , Dr. Panting , then master of the college , whom he called ' a fine Jacobite fellow , ' overheard him uttering this soliloquy in his ...
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... learning , and such his copiousness of communication , that it may be doubted whether a day now passes in which I have not some advantage from his friendship . ' At this man's table I enjoyed many cheerful and instructive hours , with ...
... learning , and such his copiousness of communication , that it may be doubted whether a day now passes in which I have not some advantage from his friendship . ' At this man's table I enjoyed many cheerful and instructive hours , with ...
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... learning by regular gradations , as men of infe- rior powers of mind . His own acquisitions had been made by fits and starts , by violent irrup- tions in the regions of knowledge ; and it could not be expected that his impatience would ...
... learning by regular gradations , as men of infe- rior powers of mind . His own acquisitions had been made by fits and starts , by violent irrup- tions in the regions of knowledge ; and it could not be expected that his impatience would ...
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Page 72 - I have been lately informed by the proprietor of ' The World,' that two papers, in which my ' Dictionary ' is recommended to the public, were written by your lordship. To be so distinguished, is an honour, which, being very little accustomed to favours from the great, I know not well how to receive, or in what terms to acknowledge. " When, upon some slight encouragement, I first visited your lordship, I was overpowered, like the rest of mankind, by the enchantment of your...
Page 11 - 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 in earnest of religion, after I became capable of rational inquiry'.