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Without being in all humours ' , he wrote to John Wilkes , ' it is im- possible to know human nature ' . And James Boswell's ambition was to know human nature . It is this exuberance of spirit which accounts for much that we like and ...
Without being in all humours ' , he wrote to John Wilkes , ' it is im- possible to know human nature ' . And James Boswell's ambition was to know human nature . It is this exuberance of spirit which accounts for much that we like and ...
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116 PARENTAGE OF SAVAGE [ 1744 His reflections open to all the recesses of the human heart ; and , in a word , a more just or pleasant , a more engaging or a more improving treatise , on all the excellencies and defects of human nature ...
116 PARENTAGE OF SAVAGE [ 1744 His reflections open to all the recesses of the human heart ; and , in a word , a more just or pleasant , a more engaging or a more improving treatise , on all the excellencies and defects of human nature ...
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I have mentioned , upon Johnson's own authority , that for his London he had only ten guineas ; and now , after his fame was established , he got for his Vanity of Human Wishes but five guineas more , as is proved by an authentick ...
I have mentioned , upon Johnson's own authority , that for his London he had only ten guineas ; and now , after his fame was established , he got for his Vanity of Human Wishes but five guineas more , as is proved by an authentick ...
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DEDICATION TO SIR JOSHUA REYNOLDS | 1 |
LIFE OF SAMUEL JOHNSON SEPT 18 1709 | 17 |
INDEX 657704 | 657 |
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