The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 5Pafraets Book Company, 1903 |
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... tion with some other possible state . We have , there- fore , few traces of the joy of our earliest discoveries ; yet we all remember a time , when nature had so many untasted gratifications , that every excursion gave delight which can ...
... tion with some other possible state . We have , there- fore , few traces of the joy of our earliest discoveries ; yet we all remember a time , when nature had so many untasted gratifications , that every excursion gave delight which can ...
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... tion ; it is sufficient , since all would be criticks if they could , to show , by one eminent example , that all can be criticks if they will . Dick Minim , after the common course of puerile studies , in which he was no great ...
... tion ; it is sufficient , since all would be criticks if they could , to show , by one eminent example , that all can be criticks if they will . Dick Minim , after the common course of puerile studies , in which he was no great ...
Pagina 320
... tion stimulates him to pursue , than that at which a prescribed law compels him to toil ' . A I am , & c . No. 68. SATURDAY , AUGUST 4 , 1759 MONG the studies which have exercised the ingenious and the learned for more than three ...
... tion stimulates him to pursue , than that at which a prescribed law compels him to toil ' . A I am , & c . No. 68. SATURDAY , AUGUST 4 , 1759 MONG the studies which have exercised the ingenious and the learned for more than three ...
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NO PAGE 111 The pleasures and advantages of industry | 1 |
The itch of writing universal | 7 |
The folly of creating artificial wants | 14 |
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