The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 8Pafraets Book Company, 1908 |
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Pagina 22
... perhaps not without some con- tempt of others ; for scarcely any man ever wrote so much , and praised so few . Of his praise he was very frugal ; as he set its value high , and considered his mention of a name , as a security against ...
... perhaps not without some con- tempt of others ; for scarcely any man ever wrote so much , and praised so few . Of his praise he was very frugal ; as he set its value high , and considered his mention of a name , as a security against ...
Pagina 24
... perhaps , given some offence by visiting Galileo , then a prisoner in the inquisition for philosophicial heresy ; and at Naples he was told by Manso , that , by his declara- tions on religious questions , he had excluded him- self from ...
... perhaps , given some offence by visiting Galileo , then a prisoner in the inquisition for philosophicial heresy ; and at Naples he was told by Manso , that , by his declara- tions on religious questions , he had excluded him- self from ...
Pagina 28
... perhaps , none of my readers has ever heard ' . That in his school , as in every thing else which he undertook , he laboured with great diligence , there is no reason for doubting . One part of his method deserves general imitation . He ...
... perhaps , none of my readers has ever heard ' . That in his school , as in every thing else which he undertook , he laboured with great diligence , there is no reason for doubting . One part of his method deserves general imitation . He ...
Pagina 31
... perhaps , was that of his antagonist . This roughness he justi- fies , by great examples , in a long digression . Some- times he tries to be humorous : " Lest I should take him for some chaplain in hand , some squire of the body to his ...
... perhaps , was that of his antagonist . This roughness he justi- fies , by great examples , in a long digression . Some- times he tries to be humorous : " Lest I should take him for some chaplain in hand , some squire of the body to his ...
Pagina 36
... perhaps , did only what his conscience dictated ; and if he did not very vigilantly watch the influence of his own passions , and the gradual prevalence of opinions , first will- ingly admitted , and then habitually indulged ; if ...
... perhaps , did only what his conscience dictated ; and if he did not very vigilantly watch the influence of his own passions , and the gradual prevalence of opinions , first will- ingly admitted , and then habitually indulged ; if ...
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