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Something might be necessary , he observed , to excite the affections of the common people , who were sunk in languor and lethargy , and therefore he supposed that the new concomitants of methodism might probably produce so desirable an ...
Something might be necessary , he observed , to excite the affections of the common people , who were sunk in languor and lethargy , and therefore he supposed that the new concomitants of methodism might probably produce so desirable an ...
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He observed , “ it was a most mortifying reflexion for any man to consider , what he had done , compared with what he might have done . ” ' He said few people had intellectual resources sufficient to forego the pleasures of wine .
He observed , “ it was a most mortifying reflexion for any man to consider , what he had done , compared with what he might have done . ” ' He said few people had intellectual resources sufficient to forego the pleasures of wine .
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Sir Joshua Reynolds was in company with them one day , when Goldsmith said , that he thought he could write a good fable , mentioned the simplicity which that kind of composition requires , and observed , that in most fables the animals ...
Sir Joshua Reynolds was in company with them one day , when Goldsmith said , that he thought he could write a good fable , mentioned the simplicity which that kind of composition requires , and observed , that in most fables the animals ...
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| Título | Life of Johnson Volumen204 de Oxford Paperbacks Volumen204 de Oxford Paperbacks: Literature Oxford standard authors |
| Autor | James Boswell |
| Edición | 3, reimpresa |
| Editor | Oxford University Press, 1953 |
| Procedencia del original | Universidad de California |
| Digitalizado | 5 Mayo 2009 |
| Largo | 1491 páginas |
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