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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... means niggardly , his attention to what was generally right was so minute , that having observed at one of the stages that I ostentatiously gave a shilling to the coach- man , when the custom was for each passenger to give only six ...
... means niggardly , his attention to what was generally right was so minute , that having observed at one of the stages that I ostentatiously gave a shilling to the coach- man , when the custom was for each passenger to give only six ...
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... mean thing . JOHNSON . ' Why , Sir , it is making a very mean use of a man's powers . But to be a good mimick ... means to assume . He goes out of himself , without going into other people . He cannot take off any person unless he ...
... mean thing . JOHNSON . ' Why , Sir , it is making a very mean use of a man's powers . But to be a good mimick ... means to assume . He goes out of himself , without going into other people . He cannot take off any person unless he ...
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... mean genteel moral characters . ' ' I think ( said Hicky , ) gentility and morality are inseparable . ' BOSWELL . ' By no means , Sir . The genteelest characters are often the most immoral . Does not Lord Chesterfield give precepts for ...
... mean genteel moral characters . ' ' I think ( said Hicky , ) gentility and morality are inseparable . ' BOSWELL . ' By no means , Sir . The genteelest characters are often the most immoral . Does not Lord Chesterfield give precepts for ...
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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 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 once opinion Oxford Pembroke College 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 |