Boswell's Life of Johnson: Including Boswell's Journal of a Tour of the Hebrides, and Johnson's Diary of A Journey Into North Wales, 第 1 巻Bigelow, Brown & Company, 1799 |
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... languages . 640 verses every Sunday will nearly comprise the Scriptures in a year . ' Pr . and Med . p . 58. 1770 , 1st Sunday after Easter . The plan which I formed for reading the Scriptures was to read 600 verses in the Old Testament ...
... languages . 640 verses every Sunday will nearly comprise the Scriptures in a year . ' Pr . and Med . p . 58. 1770 , 1st Sunday after Easter . The plan which I formed for reading the Scriptures was to read 600 verses in the Old Testament ...
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... language of translation being adapted to the thoughts of another person , insensibly follows their cast , and , as it were , runs into a mould that is ready prepared ' . ' Johnson , it should seem , did not think himself ill - used by ...
... language of translation being adapted to the thoughts of another person , insensibly follows their cast , and , as it were , runs into a mould that is ready prepared ' . ' Johnson , it should seem , did not think himself ill - used by ...
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... language ' ; no Chinese perfectly polite , and com- pletely skilled in all sciences ; he will discover , what will always be discovered by a diligent and impartial enquirer , that wherever human nature is to be found , there is a ...
... language ' ; no Chinese perfectly polite , and com- pletely skilled in all sciences ; he will discover , what will always be discovered by a diligent and impartial enquirer , that wherever human nature is to be found , there is a ...
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... languages , by SAM- UEL JOHNSON . ' But the only pupils that were put under his care were the celebrated David Garrick and his brother George , and a Mr. Offely , a young gentleman of good fortune who died early . As yet , his name had ...
... languages , by SAM- UEL JOHNSON . ' But the only pupils that were put under his care were the celebrated David Garrick and his brother George , and a Mr. Offely , a young gentleman of good fortune who died early . As yet , his name had ...
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... languages , till you go to the University . The Greek authours I think it best for you to read are these : ' Cebes . ' Elian . ' Lucian by Leeds . Attick . ' Xenophon . ' Homer . Ionick . ' Theocritus . Dorick . ' Euripides . Attick and ...
... languages , till you go to the University . The Greek authours I think it best for you to read are these : ' Cebes . ' Elian . ' Lucian by Leeds . Attick . ' Xenophon . ' Homer . Ionick . ' Theocritus . Dorick . ' Euripides . Attick and ...
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304 ページ - Is not a patron, my lord, one who looks with unconcern on a man struggling for life in the water, and, when he has reached ground, encumbers him with help? The notice which you have been pleased to take of my labours, had it been early, had been kind ; but it has been delayed till I am indifferent, and cannot enjoy it; till I am solitary, and cannot impart it; till I am known, and do not want it.
303 ページ - I might boast myself le vainqueur du vainqueur de la terre, that I might obtain that regard for which I saw the world contending, but I found my attendance so little encouraged that neither pride nor modesty would suffer me to continue it.
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