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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... remarks is so great , that perhaps no degree of attention or discernment will be sufficient to afford it . ' Come home , however , and take your chance . I long to see you , and to hear you ; and hope that we shall not be so long sep ...
... remarks is so great , that perhaps no degree of attention or discernment will be sufficient to afford it . ' Come home , however , and take your chance . I long to see you , and to hear you ; and hope that we shall not be so long sep ...
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... remark 1 See Boswell's Hebrides , Aug. 19 , 1773 . 2 Johnson ( Works , ix . 107 ) thus sums up his examination of second- sight : There is against it , the seeming analogy of things confusedly seen , and little understood ; and for it ...
... remark 1 See Boswell's Hebrides , Aug. 19 , 1773 . 2 Johnson ( Works , ix . 107 ) thus sums up his examination of second- sight : There is against it , the seeming analogy of things confusedly seen , and little understood ; and for it ...
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... remark . ' 6 " See post , April 15 , 1778 . These two words may be observed as marks of Mr. Boswell's ac- curacy . It is a jocular Irish phrase , which , of all Johnson's acquaint- ances , no one probably , but Goldsmith , would have ...
... remark . ' 6 " See post , April 15 , 1778 . These two words may be observed as marks of Mr. Boswell's ac- curacy . It is a jocular Irish phrase , which , of all Johnson's acquaint- ances , no one probably , but Goldsmith , would have ...
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... remark : --- ' Dr. Johnson has alluded to the worthy man employed in the transla- tion of the New Testament . Might not this have afforded you an opportunity of paying a proper tribute of respect to the memory of the Rev. Mr. James ...
... remark : --- ' Dr. Johnson has alluded to the worthy man employed in the transla- tion of the New Testament . Might not this have afforded you an opportunity of paying a proper tribute of respect to the memory of the Rev. Mr. James ...
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... remark- able elegance of his own manners , was , perhaps , too delicate- ly sensible of the roughness which sometimes appeared in Johnson's behaviour . One evening about this time , when his Lordship did me the honour to sup at my ...
... remark- able elegance of his own manners , was , perhaps , too delicate- ly sensible of the roughness which sometimes appeared in Johnson's behaviour . One evening about this time , when his Lordship did me the honour to sup at my ...
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