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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... means of getting money by flattery . I. D'Israeli in his Calamities of Authors , i . 64 , says : - ' Ful- ler's Church History is disgraced by twelve particular dedications . It was an expedient to procure dedication fees ; for ...
... means of getting money by flattery . I. D'Israeli in his Calamities of Authors , i . 64 , says : - ' Ful- ler's Church History is disgraced by twelve particular dedications . It was an expedient to procure dedication fees ; for ...
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... means speaking his own sentiments . Notwithstanding his long silence , I never omitted to write to him when I had any thing worthy of communicating . I generally kept copies of my letters to him , that I might have 1782 , p . 454. His ...
... means speaking his own sentiments . Notwithstanding his long silence , I never omitted to write to him when I had any thing worthy of communicating . I generally kept copies of my letters to him , that I might have 1782 , p . 454. His ...
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... mean minds to venture themselves within the sphere of greatness . ' In the court that Bos- well many years later paid to Lord Lonsdale , he suffered all the hu- miliations that the brutality of this petty greatness can inflict . Let ...
... mean minds to venture themselves within the sphere of greatness . ' In the court that Bos- well many years later paid to Lord Lonsdale , he suffered all the hu- miliations that the brutality of this petty greatness can inflict . Let ...
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... mean to be serious , I think him one of the worst of men ; a rascal who ought to be hunted out of society , as he has been . Three or four nations have expelled him ; and it is a shame that he is protected in this country ' . ' BosWELL ...
... mean to be serious , I think him one of the worst of men ; a rascal who ought to be hunted out of society , as he has been . Three or four nations have expelled him ; and it is a shame that he is protected in this country ' . ' BosWELL ...
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... means of knowing , not less than the tenth part of his income was set apart for charity : at the time of his death , the sum of twenty - five pounds was found , with a direction to be em- ployed in such uses . ' He had laid down a plan ...
... means of knowing , not less than the tenth part of his income was set apart for charity : at the time of his death , the sum of twenty - five pounds was found , with a direction to be em- ployed in such uses . ' He had laid down a plan ...
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