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... mind . Melancholy has had in me its paroxisms and remissions , but I have not improved the intervals .... " } He had achieved a philosophy of his own to deal with this complaint as told to Boswell : " Make it an invariable and ...
... mind . Melancholy has had in me its paroxisms and remissions , but I have not improved the intervals .... " } He had achieved a philosophy of his own to deal with this complaint as told to Boswell : " Make it an invariable and ...
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... mind to give him : on which I set about to read Thomas à Kempis in Low Dutch , which I accomplished , and thence I judged that my mind was not impaired , Low Dutch having no affinity with any of the languages which I knew . " So here he ...
... mind to give him : on which I set about to read Thomas à Kempis in Low Dutch , which I accomplished , and thence I judged that my mind was not impaired , Low Dutch having no affinity with any of the languages which I knew . " So here he ...
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... mind which make him such a giant as an example for subsequent ages . Boswell in a passage of rare skill and imagination says that " Johnson's mind resembled the vast amphitheatre , the Colisaeum at Rome . In the centre stood his ...
... mind which make him such a giant as an example for subsequent ages . Boswell in a passage of rare skill and imagination says that " Johnson's mind resembled the vast amphitheatre , the Colisaeum at Rome . In the centre stood his ...
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