Life of JohnsonMacmillan, 1893 - 718 páginas |
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... opinion of the generality of mankind , is attended with contempt and disgrace . But let not little men triumph upon knowing that Johnson was an HYPO- CHONDRIAC , was subject to what the learned , philosophical , and pious Dr. Cheyne has ...
... opinion of the generality of mankind , is attended with contempt and disgrace . But let not little men triumph upon knowing that Johnson was an HYPO- CHONDRIAC , was subject to what the learned , philosophical , and pious Dr. Cheyne has ...
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... opinion , and favoured me with the follow- ing paper . " Those motions or tricks of Dr. Johnson are improperly called convulsions . He could sit motionless , when he was told so to do , as well as any other man . My opinion is , that it ...
... opinion , and favoured me with the follow- ing paper . " Those motions or tricks of Dr. Johnson are improperly called convulsions . He could sit motionless , when he was told so to do , as well as any other man . My opinion is , that it ...
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... opinion only , not my resolution . Emptoris sit eligere . " I think the insertion of the exact dates of the most important events in the margin , or of so many events as may enable the reader to regulate the order of facts with ...
... opinion only , not my resolution . Emptoris sit eligere . " I think the insertion of the exact dates of the most important events in the margin , or of so many events as may enable the reader to regulate the order of facts with ...
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... opinion , to interpose my own judgment , and shall therefore endeavour to sup- most consonant to port what appears to me grammar and reason . Ausonius thought that modesty forbade him to plead inability for a task to which Cæsar had ...
... opinion , to interpose my own judgment , and shall therefore endeavour to sup- most consonant to port what appears to me grammar and reason . Ausonius thought that modesty forbade him to plead inability for a task to which Cæsar had ...
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... opinion : " A man , " said he , " who writes a book , thinks himself wiser or wittier than the rest of mankind ; he sup- poses that he can instruct or amuse them , and the public to whom he appeals must , after all , be the judges of ...
... opinion : " A man , " said he , " who writes a book , thinks himself wiser or wittier than the rest of mankind ; he sup- poses that he can instruct or amuse them , and the public to whom he appeals must , after all , be the judges of ...
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