Life of JohnsonMacmillan, 1893 - 718 páginas |
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... conversation , your tru politeness , by which you are so amiable in private society , and that enlarge hospitality which has long made your house a common centre of union for the great the accomplished , the learned , and the ingenious ...
... conversation , your tru politeness , by which you are so amiable in private society , and that enlarge hospitality which has long made your house a common centre of union for the great the accomplished , the learned , and the ingenious ...
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... minutes , letters , or conversation , being convinced that this mode is more lively , and will make my 1 Mrs. Thrale , afterwards Mrs. Piozzi . 2 Brit . Mus . 4320 , Ayscough's Catal . Sloane MSS . B. THE DUTIES OF A BIOGRAPHER.
... minutes , letters , or conversation , being convinced that this mode is more lively , and will make my 1 Mrs. Thrale , afterwards Mrs. Piozzi . 2 Brit . Mus . 4320 , Ayscough's Catal . Sloane MSS . B. THE DUTIES OF A BIOGRAPHER.
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... conversation of a celebrated man , if his talents had been exerted in conversation , will best display his char- acter , is , I trust , too well established in the judgment of mankind to be at all shaken by a sneering observation of Mr ...
... conversation of a celebrated man , if his talents had been exerted in conversation , will best display his char- acter , is , I trust , too well established in the judgment of mankind to be at all shaken by a sneering observation of Mr ...
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... conversation , such thoughts were sure to rush into his mind ; and , for this reason , any company , any employment whatever , he preferred to being alone . The great business of his life , he said , was to escape from himself ; this ...
... conversation , such thoughts were sure to rush into his mind ; and , for this reason , any company , any employment whatever , he preferred to being alone . The great business of his life , he said , was to escape from himself ; this ...
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... conversation . This Essay is a short but masterly performance . We find him in No. 13 of his " Rambler , " censuring a profli- gate sentiment in that " Account ; " and again insisting upon it strenuously in con- versation . + " An ...
... conversation . This Essay is a short but masterly performance . We find him in No. 13 of his " Rambler , " censuring a profli- gate sentiment in that " Account ; " and again insisting upon it strenuously in con- versation . + " An ...
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