The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: Together with The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides, Том 2G. Bell and sons, 1889 |
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... wrote for the booksellers in a great variety of branches . Though he certainly was not without considerable merit , he wrote with so little regard to decency , and principles , and decorum , and in so hasty a manner , that his ...
... wrote for the booksellers in a great variety of branches . Though he certainly was not without considerable merit , he wrote with so little regard to decency , and principles , and decorum , and in so hasty a manner , that his ...
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... wrote a very great number of Dedications for others . Some of these , the persons who were favoured with them are un- willing should be mentioned , from a too anxious apprehen- sion , as I think , that they might be suspected of having ...
... wrote a very great number of Dedications for others . Some of these , the persons who were favoured with them are un- willing should be mentioned , from a too anxious apprehen- sion , as I think , that they might be suspected of having ...
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... wrote a hundred lines of The Vanity of Human Wishes ' in a day . Doctor , " turning to Goldsmith , " I am not quite idle ; I made one line t'other day ; but I made no more . " GOLDSMITH . " Let us hear it : we'll put a bad one to it ...
... wrote a hundred lines of The Vanity of Human Wishes ' in a day . Doctor , " turning to Goldsmith , " I am not quite idle ; I made one line t'other day ; but I made no more . " GOLDSMITH . " Let us hear it : we'll put a bad one to it ...
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... wrote an account which he has been pleased to communicate to me : - “ The circumstances of Mr. Peregrine Langton were these . He had an annuity for life of two hundred pounds per annum . He resided in a village in Lincolnshire : the ...
... wrote an account which he has been pleased to communicate to me : - “ The circumstances of Mr. Peregrine Langton were these . He had an annuity for life of two hundred pounds per annum . He resided in a village in Lincolnshire : the ...
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... wrote to him again without being able to move his indolence : nor did I hear from him till he had received a copy of my inaugural Exercise , or Thesis in Civil Law , which I published at my admission as an Advocate , as is the custom in ...
... wrote to him again without being able to move his indolence : nor did I hear from him till he had received a copy of my inaugural Exercise , or Thesis in Civil Law , which I published at my admission as an Advocate , as is the custom in ...
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Стр. 282 - The greatest part of a writer's time is spent in reading, in order to write ; a man will turn over half a library to make one book." I argued warmly against the judges trading, and mentioned Hale as an instance of a perfect judge, who devoted himself entirely to his office. JoHNSON : " Hale, Sir, attended to other things beside law : he left a great estate.