Wit and Wisdom of Samuel JohnsonClarendon Press, 1888 - 323 pages |
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... pleased when we are not troubled 12 ' urselves with either suspicions or the . ' Suspicion is very often a useless misery is certainly folly . If we do ble the world with our complaints , hose who do not feel pain seldom is ' no croaker ...
... pleased when we are not troubled 12 ' urselves with either suspicions or the . ' Suspicion is very often a useless misery is certainly folly . If we do ble the world with our complaints , hose who do not feel pain seldom is ' no croaker ...
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... pleased the ot satisfy the learned ; it did not fill a thinking strongly . The merit of Shak- as the ignorant could take in , and the ng to it . ' Windham's Diary , p . 18 . remarked the fate of books must have 1 by other causes than ...
... pleased the ot satisfy the learned ; it did not fill a thinking strongly . The merit of Shak- as the ignorant could take in , and the ng to it . ' Windham's Diary , p . 18 . remarked the fate of books must have 1 by other causes than ...
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... pleased to have his all r so little . Lord , have now passed since I waited ooms or was repulsed from your door ; I have been pushing on my work through h it is useless to complain , and have to the verge of publication , without one he ...
... pleased to have his all r so little . Lord , have now passed since I waited ooms or was repulsed from your door ; I have been pushing on my work through h it is useless to complain , and have to the verge of publication , without one he ...
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... sc . 7 . there THIS is a strata e and yet afraid y his vanity an Browne's Religio A e author's knowledg to doubt the truth of os editions ... It is and to the press , and gly pay to fortune that regard nd are pleased when.
... sc . 7 . there THIS is a strata e and yet afraid y his vanity an Browne's Religio A e author's knowledg to doubt the truth of os editions ... It is and to the press , and gly pay to fortune that regard nd are pleased when.
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... pleased when they have gratifying their vanity and prac- raud : Works , viii . 125 . distinct from other violations of consist in this , that the man in- in the act by which the injury is y anything valuable without the neft ; to take ...
... pleased when they have gratifying their vanity and prac- raud : Works , viii . 125 . distinct from other violations of consist in this , that the man in- in the act by which the injury is y anything valuable without the neft ; to take ...
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