Essays on Various SubjectsJ. Johnson, 1809 - 158 páginas |
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... friends and acquaintance : to the general reader , therefore , some apology may be due for a minuteness of detail , which the few incidents in the life of a re- tired literary character would on any other account have rendered ...
... friends and acquaintance : to the general reader , therefore , some apology may be due for a minuteness of detail , which the few incidents in the life of a re- tired literary character would on any other account have rendered ...
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... friends as no very favourable symptom of his future attainments . Mr. A. , the gentleman to whom he alludes in the last letter as having upbraided him for his fickleness , in a letter to his father about the beginning of 1748 speaks of ...
... friends as no very favourable symptom of his future attainments . Mr. A. , the gentleman to whom he alludes in the last letter as having upbraided him for his fickleness , in a letter to his father about the beginning of 1748 speaks of ...
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... friends , lest his health should fall a sacrifice , and induced them to remonstrate with him upon the necessity of remitting in some measure the severity of his application . The effect of these admonitions was but temporary , for he ...
... friends , lest his health should fall a sacrifice , and induced them to remonstrate with him upon the necessity of remitting in some measure the severity of his application . The effect of these admonitions was but temporary , for he ...
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... friend he unbosoms himself completely upon the subject of his present situation and the state of his mind : - after describing the variety of his occupa- tions , he adds , " Do not suppose , that I " would image myself to you as a ...
... friend he unbosoms himself completely upon the subject of his present situation and the state of his mind : - after describing the variety of his occupa- tions , he adds , " Do not suppose , that I " would image myself to you as a ...
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... friends , and what my " own ambition may have imagined , and of " sustaining with some tolerable repute the " public profession I am designed for , have " made me industriously strive to curb " this passion , before my character in life ...
... friends , and what my " own ambition may have imagined , and of " sustaining with some tolerable repute the " public profession I am designed for , have " made me industriously strive to curb " this passion , before my character in life ...
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