Wit and Wisdom of Samuel JohnsonClarendon Press, 1888 - 323 pages |
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... misery . No one understood better than by which we arrive at such happiness as life one felt more compassion for those who , irmity of will , failed to practise this art . It is nion of the strongest common sense and a of heart that ...
... misery . No one understood better than by which we arrive at such happiness as life one felt more compassion for those who , irmity of will , failed to practise this art . It is nion of the strongest common sense and a of heart that ...
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... terror , denied . To the evil Poverty he steadily Crabbe's Village bed nd rustic misery , bu As truth wil He dislikes all af great lexicogra the Morley's Life of Co The Rambler , No. Ibi tue . ' We do not always suffer by ays.
... terror , denied . To the evil Poverty he steadily Crabbe's Village bed nd rustic misery , bu As truth wil He dislikes all af great lexicogra the Morley's Life of Co The Rambler , No. Ibi tue . ' We do not always suffer by ays.
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... misery m - pudding the less ot to be duped ' 1 sympathy . You not very ready to do He distinguishes bet Les ? The news arr heart , we read , ' bea ( know that no man ea have been all this reckoned a consecra hibits his rough peals to ...
... misery m - pudding the less ot to be duped ' 1 sympathy . You not very ready to do He distinguishes bet Les ? The news arr heart , we read , ' bea ( know that no man ea have been all this reckoned a consecra hibits his rough peals to ...
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... misery is certainly folly . If we do ble the world with our complaints , hose who do not feel pain seldom is ' no croaker , no declaimer against complains of the world . ' It is not , ' ii . 440 . 3 Piozzi's Anecdotes , p . 106 . iii ...
... misery is certainly folly . If we do ble the world with our complaints , hose who do not feel pain seldom is ' no croaker , no declaimer against complains of the world . ' It is not , ' ii . 440 . 3 Piozzi's Anecdotes , p . 106 . iii ...
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... misery . Ib . ix . 412 . at where there is distress there the crime of feeding the lazy or To promote vice is certainly always encourage vice when we istant admiration : Ib . ix . 393 . de only for distant admiration . 1 a blaze . Ib ...
... misery . Ib . ix . 412 . at where there is distress there the crime of feeding the lazy or To promote vice is certainly always encourage vice when we istant admiration : Ib . ix . 393 . de only for distant admiration . 1 a blaze . Ib ...
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