The beauties of Samuel Johnson: maxims and observations. To which are now added, biographical anecdotes of the doctor, his life [&c.].1804 |
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... less diligent to lock the door every night , though he saw that any body might walk in at the back part , and knew that there was no security obtained by barring the front door . " This ( says his son ) was mad- ness , you may see , and ...
... less diligent to lock the door every night , though he saw that any body might walk in at the back part , and knew that there was no security obtained by barring the front door . " This ( says his son ) was mad- ness , you may see , and ...
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... less than five Cambridge men in the room now . " I did not ( said he ) think of that till you told me ; but the wolf don't count the sheep . " I have heard him relate how he used to sit in some coffee - house at Oxford , and turn ...
... less than five Cambridge men in the room now . " I did not ( said he ) think of that till you told me ; but the wolf don't count the sheep . " I have heard him relate how he used to sit in some coffee - house at Oxford , and turn ...
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... less then delicate ; a leg of pork boiled till it dropped from the bone , a veal pye with plums and su- gar , or the outside of a salt buttock of beef , were his fa- vourite dainties ; with regard to drink , his liking was for the ...
... less then delicate ; a leg of pork boiled till it dropped from the bone , a veal pye with plums and su- gar , or the outside of a salt buttock of beef , were his fa- vourite dainties ; with regard to drink , his liking was for the ...
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... less attention than he had long been accustomed to , he had a rougher ' denunciation : " That woman ( cries Johnson ) is like sour small - beer , the beverage of her table . " Mr. Johnson's hatred of the Scotch is so well known , and ...
... less attention than he had long been accustomed to , he had a rougher ' denunciation : " That woman ( cries Johnson ) is like sour small - beer , the beverage of her table . " Mr. Johnson's hatred of the Scotch is so well known , and ...
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... less confident of his own abilities , lamenting one day that he had lost all his Greek— “ I believe , it happened at the same time , Sir , ( said John- son ) that I lost all my large estate in Yorkshire . " But , however roughly he ...
... less confident of his own abilities , lamenting one day that he had lost all his Greek— “ I believe , it happened at the same time , Sir , ( said John- son ) that I lost all my large estate in Yorkshire . " But , however roughly he ...
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