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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... opinion about town that Dr. Johnson wrote the whole poem for his friend , who was then in a manner an unknown writer . ' Taylor's Reynolds , ii . 458. See also post , April 9 , 1778. For each line of The Traveller Goldsmith was paid ...
... opinion about town that Dr. Johnson wrote the whole poem for his friend , who was then in a manner an unknown writer . ' Taylor's Reynolds , ii . 458. See also post , April 9 , 1778. For each line of The Traveller Goldsmith was paid ...
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... opinion that every thing should be taught by lectures . Now , I cannot see that lectures can do so much good as reading the books from which the lectures are taken . I know nothing that can be best taught by lectures ' , except 1634 , p ...
... opinion that every thing should be taught by lectures . Now , I cannot see that lectures can do so much good as reading the books from which the lectures are taken . I know nothing that can be best taught by lectures ' , except 1634 , p ...
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... opinion , if he thinks himself one of the best of men ; for none of his friends think him so .'- He said , no honest man could be a Deist ; for no man could be so after a fair examination of the proofs of Christianity . I named Hume1 ...
... opinion , if he thinks himself one of the best of men ; for none of his friends think him so .'- He said , no honest man could be a Deist ; for no man could be so after a fair examination of the proofs of Christianity . I named Hume1 ...
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... opinion which many wor- thy men have expressed of his ' Profession de Foi du Vicaire Savoyard , ' I cannot help admiring it as the performance of a man full of sincere reverential submission to Divine Mys- tery , though beset with ...
... opinion which many wor- thy men have expressed of his ' Profession de Foi du Vicaire Savoyard , ' I cannot help admiring it as the performance of a man full of sincere reverential submission to Divine Mys- tery , though beset with ...
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... opinions , at least his desires , are a little influenced by his favourite studies . My zeal for languages may seem , per- haps , rather over - heated , even to those by whom I desire to be well - esteemed . To those who have nothing in ...
... opinions , at least his desires , are a little influenced by his favourite studies . My zeal for languages may seem , per- haps , rather over - heated , even to those by whom I desire to be well - esteemed . To those who have nothing in ...
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