Wit and Wisdom of Samuel JohnsonClarendon Press, 1888 - 323 pages |
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... never exhibited those iations which trouble us in some of the greatest ne of his friends praising the originality of his In general you may tell what the man to whom aking will say next . This you can never do of Though you could never ...
... never exhibited those iations which trouble us in some of the greatest ne of his friends praising the originality of his In general you may tell what the man to whom aking will say next . This you can never do of Though you could never ...
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... never have 11 that he is to us . Benjamin Franklin had ense than the frame of any single man seems tining or supporting . But who loves common ands alone ? It must be dashed by the failings affections with ourselves . It must at times ...
... never have 11 that he is to us . Benjamin Franklin had ense than the frame of any single man seems tining or supporting . But who loves common ands alone ? It must be dashed by the failings affections with ourselves . It must at times ...
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... never snarls and he never guilty of sullenness against nature1 . ' -py , it must be unhappy . But what of be done to make it happier , and that ch one of us steadily do . The worst own and whine . It is of small things it is in these ...
... never snarls and he never guilty of sullenness against nature1 . ' -py , it must be unhappy . But what of be done to make it happier , and that ch one of us steadily do . The worst own and whine . It is of small things it is in these ...
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... never varnishes rustic vice ' paints the cot it , and as bards will not " . ' › n , all ' studied behaviour ' He is the great moralist , the ' Guide , 308 . 11 2 Works , iv . 121 . 6 At Langton he lays himself on the down a.
... never varnishes rustic vice ' paints the cot it , and as bards will not " . ' › n , all ' studied behaviour ' He is the great moralist , the ' Guide , 308 . 11 2 Works , iv . 121 . 6 At Langton he lays himself on the down a.
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... never afraid 1 however great may George III asked M in Shakespeare , but it's true . Only him ?? There was Criticise with hones Shakespeare the and was content to praise on Milton t illustrious justice may possib efreshment of coffee ...
... never afraid 1 however great may George III asked M in Shakespeare , but it's true . Only him ?? There was Criticise with hones Shakespeare the and was content to praise on Milton t illustrious justice may possib efreshment of coffee ...
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