Life of JohnsonOxford University Press, 1980 - 1492 páginas This minute account of the life of the great eighteenth-century thinker and writer is probably the most famous biography in the English language. |
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... human weak- ness to a great human strength ' ( B. H. Bronson ) , and that pre- cisely states one facet of its appeal . Boswell knew he could not be Johnson , in the way that he might once have vaguely aspired to be a philosopher like ...
... human weak- ness to a great human strength ' ( B. H. Bronson ) , and that pre- cisely states one facet of its appeal . Boswell knew he could not be Johnson , in the way that he might once have vaguely aspired to be a philosopher like ...
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... 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 , is scarce to be found in our own , or , perhaps , any other language . " 1 ...
... 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 , is scarce to be found in our own , or , perhaps , any other language . " 1 ...
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... Human Wishes has less of common life , but more of a philosophick dignity than his London . More readers , there- fore , will be delighted with the pointed spirit of London , than with the profound reflection of The Vanity of Human ...
... Human Wishes has less of common life , but more of a philosophick dignity than his London . More readers , there- fore , will be delighted with the pointed spirit of London , than with the profound reflection of The Vanity of Human ...
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Part of a Review of Graingers Sugar Cane a Poem in the London | 16 |
The False Alarm acknowl | 431 |
Thoughts on the late Transactions respecting Falklands Islands | 450 |
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acknowl acquaintance admiration afterwards appeared Ashbourne asked authour Beauclerk believe BENNET LANGTON bookseller Boswell Papers Boswell's character church compliments consider conversation dear Sir death Dictionary dined doubt Edinburgh edition eminent English favour Garrick gentleman Gentleman's Magazine give Goldsmith happy heard Hebrides honour hope house of Stuart humble servant JAMES BOSWELL John kind King lady Langton language learning letter Lichfield literary lived London Lord Lord Chesterfield Lord Monboddo Lucy Porter manner mentioned merit mind never obliged observed occasion opinion Oxford perhaps pleased pleasure poem poet praise publick published Rambler recollect remarkable Reverend Samuel Johnson Scotland Shakspeare shew Sir John Hawkins Sir Joshua Reynolds Streatham suppose sure talked tell thing THOMAS WARTON thought Thrale tion told truth Warton wish write written wrote
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Cognitive-behavioural Therapy: Research, Practice, and Philosophy Brian Sheldon Sin vista previa disponible - 1995 |