The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 3Pafraets Book Company, 1903 |
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... happens , that I do not find the temper to which the texture of his brain is fitted , I accom- modate him in time with a tube of mercury , first marking the points most favourable to his intellects , according to rules which I have long ...
... happens , that I do not find the temper to which the texture of his brain is fitted , I accom- modate him in time with a tube of mercury , first marking the points most favourable to his intellects , according to rules which I have long ...
Pagina 68
... happens , that all circumstances concur to happiness or fame . The nation which produced this great historian , has the grief of seeing his genius employed upon a foreign and uninteresting subject ; and that writer who might have ...
... happens , that all circumstances concur to happiness or fame . The nation which produced this great historian , has the grief of seeing his genius employed upon a foreign and uninteresting subject ; and that writer who might have ...
Pagina 301
... happens to have no employment equal to his ambition or genius ; it is therefore my cus- tom to apply my attention to the objects before me , and as I cannot think any place wholly un- worthy of notice that affords a habitation to a man ...
... happens to have no employment equal to his ambition or genius ; it is therefore my cus- tom to apply my attention to the objects before me , and as I cannot think any place wholly un- worthy of notice that affords a habitation to a man ...
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The dangers of imitation The impropriety of imitating Spenser | 56 |
A criticism on the English historians | 62 |
The young trader turned gentleman | 69 |
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