The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 5Pafraets Book Company, 1903 |
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Pagina 48
... less pleasure from the acquisi- tion of reward than the consciousness of merit . Let us look again upon mankind : interest is still the ruling motive , and the world is yet full of fraud and corruption , malevolence and rapine . The ...
... less pleasure from the acquisi- tion of reward than the consciousness of merit . Let us look again upon mankind : interest is still the ruling motive , and the world is yet full of fraud and corruption , malevolence and rapine . The ...
Pagina 276
... less than its weight in gold , only because it is old , though neither less brittle , nor better painted , than the modern ; and brown china is caught up with ecstasy , though no reason can be imagined for which it should be preferred ...
... less than its weight in gold , only because it is old , though neither less brittle , nor better painted , than the modern ; and brown china is caught up with ecstasy , though no reason can be imagined for which it should be preferred ...
Pagina 344
... less than we desire , or less than we suppose others to remember . Memory is like all other human powers , with which no man can be satisfied who measures them by what he can conceive , or by what he can desire . He whose mind is most ...
... less than we desire , or less than we suppose others to remember . Memory is like all other human powers , with which no man can be satisfied who measures them by what he can conceive , or by what he can desire . He whose mind is most ...
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NO PAGE 111 The pleasures and advantages of industry | 1 |
The itch of writing universal | 7 |
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