Wisdom and Genius of Dr. Samuel Johnson: Selected from His Prose WritingsJ. Blackwood, 1875 - 298 páginas |
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... leisure , or have any inclination , to bestow much attention on their voluminous productions . To enable such readers to become , in some measure , acquainted with the writings of one of the greatest essayists and moralists of the last ...
... leisure , or have any inclination , to bestow much attention on their voluminous productions . To enable such readers to become , in some measure , acquainted with the writings of one of the greatest essayists and moralists of the last ...
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... leisure , and decide with authority . CENSURE . CENSURE is willingly indulged , because it always implies some superiority : men please themselves with imagining that they have made a deeper search , or wider survey , than others , and ...
... leisure , and decide with authority . CENSURE . CENSURE is willingly indulged , because it always implies some superiority : men please themselves with imagining that they have made a deeper search , or wider survey , than others , and ...
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... leisure , without any regard to their determinations . CUNNING . EVERY man wishes to be wise , and they who can- not be wise are almost always cunning . The less is the real discernment of those whom business or conversation brings ...
... leisure , without any regard to their determinations . CUNNING . EVERY man wishes to be wise , and they who can- not be wise are almost always cunning . The less is the real discernment of those whom business or conversation brings ...
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... leisure and in retirement , and whose intellectual vigour deserts them in conversation ; whom merri- ment confuses , and objection disconcerts ; whose bashfulness restrains their exertion , and suffers them not to speak till the time of ...
... leisure and in retirement , and whose intellectual vigour deserts them in conversation ; whom merri- ment confuses , and objection disconcerts ; whose bashfulness restrains their exertion , and suffers them not to speak till the time of ...
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... leisure from their own affairs than to acquaint themselves with the ac- cidents of the current day . Engaged in contriving some refuge from calamity , or in shortening the way to some new possession , they seldom suffer their thoughts ...
... leisure from their own affairs than to acquaint themselves with the ac- cidents of the current day . Engaged in contriving some refuge from calamity , or in shortening the way to some new possession , they seldom suffer their thoughts ...
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