Life of Johnson: Including Boswell's Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides and Johnson's Diary of A Journey Into North WalesHarper, 1904 - Hebrides (Scotland) |
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... learning and piety , I now wrote to him from the palace of Pascal Paoli , sacred to wisdom and liberty . ' Boswell's Tour to Corsica , p . 218. How delighted would Boswell have been had he lived to see the way in which he is spoken of ...
... learning and piety , I now wrote to him from the palace of Pascal Paoli , sacred to wisdom and liberty . ' Boswell's Tour to Corsica , p . 218. How delighted would Boswell have been had he lived to see the way in which he is spoken of ...
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... learning may now supersede the ancient mode of oral instruction . ' Gibbon's Mist : Works , i . 50. See post , March 20 , 1776 , note . ? See ante , i . 120 . ' Baretti was in Italy at the same time as Boswell . That they met seems to ...
... learning may now supersede the ancient mode of oral instruction . ' Gibbon's Mist : Works , i . 50. See post , March 20 , 1776 , note . ? See ante , i . 120 . ' Baretti was in Italy at the same time as Boswell . That they met seems to ...
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... 1775 : - You are very kind in saying that I may overtake you in learning . Believe me though that I have a kind of impotency of study . ' Letters of Bos- well , p . 181 . those Aetat . 57. ] The choice of a Profession .
... 1775 : - You are very kind in saying that I may overtake you in learning . Believe me though that I have a kind of impotency of study . ' Letters of Bos- well , p . 181 . those Aetat . 57. ] The choice of a Profession .
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... learning , and abolish it from daily use . When the Highlanders read the Bible , they will natu- rally wish to have its obscurities cleared , and to know the history , collateral or appendant . Knowledge always desires increase : it is ...
... learning , and abolish it from daily use . When the Highlanders read the Bible , they will natu- rally wish to have its obscurities cleared , and to know the history , collateral or appendant . Knowledge always desires increase : it is ...
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... learning resembled Garrick's acting , in its universality ' . His Majesty then talked ' In one part of the character of Pope ( Works , viii . 319 ) , Johnson seems to be describing himself : - ' He certainly was in his early life a man ...
... learning resembled Garrick's acting , in its universality ' . His Majesty then talked ' In one part of the character of Pope ( Works , viii . 319 ) , Johnson seems to be describing himself : - ' He certainly was in his early life a man ...
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