Wit and Wisdom of Samuel JohnsonClarendon Press, 1888 - 323 pages |
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... action ; you hold is , because he is a brute ; and in pro- re removed from brutes , action will have = upon them . Boswell's Life of Johnson , ii . 211 . Addison's Use of Wit : price ; but detection of the 30 insensible to t erved by ...
... action ; you hold is , because he is a brute ; and in pro- re removed from brutes , action will have = upon them . Boswell's Life of Johnson , ii . 211 . Addison's Use of Wit : price ; but detection of the 30 insensible to t erved by ...
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... actions of the poten- ent ; that none but naval power can ~ , and that it is not necessary for us to à territories are ... action to resolve itself very estin Fan , unless there be foolish ; a wman may not like ying a pretty w persecuted ...
... actions of the poten- ent ; that none but naval power can ~ , and that it is not necessary for us to à territories are ... action to resolve itself very estin Fan , unless there be foolish ; a wman may not like ying a pretty w persecuted ...
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... action , may squander their wealth in such a manner that some part of it may benefit the virtuous or the miserable ; but as the guilt , so the virtue of every action arises from design ; and those blessings which are bestowed by chance ...
... action , may squander their wealth in such a manner that some part of it may benefit the virtuous or the miserable ; but as the guilt , so the virtue of every action arises from design ; and those blessings which are bestowed by chance ...
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... actions , or ; the greater part of our time passes in necessities , in the performance of daily moval of small inconveniences , in the etty pleasures ; and we are well or ill at stream of life glides on smoothly , or is ostacles and ...
... actions , or ; the greater part of our time passes in necessities , in the performance of daily moval of small inconveniences , in the etty pleasures ; and we are well or ill at stream of life glides on smoothly , or is ostacles and ...
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... action is inds suspended and motionless till it causes into a new channel . But the eadful . in this distressed solitude is , perhaps piety , to a gloomy acquiescence in ortal beings , one must lose the other . higher and better comfort ...
... action is inds suspended and motionless till it causes into a new channel . But the eadful . in this distressed solitude is , perhaps piety , to a gloomy acquiescence in ortal beings , one must lose the other . higher and better comfort ...
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