Kings & Desperate Men: Life in Eighteenth-century EnglandLife in eighteenth century England in the time of the French Revolution. |
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A vivid sentence of Carlyle's has created the legend that Johnson's crushing letter to Chesterfield ( “ Is not a patron , my Lord , one who looks with unconcern on a man struggling for life in the water , and when he has reached the ...
A vivid sentence of Carlyle's has created the legend that Johnson's crushing letter to Chesterfield ( “ Is not a patron , my Lord , one who looks with unconcern on a man struggling for life in the water , and when he has reached the ...
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He had ( as have many Tories ) a gouty independence of mind : it was rugged and dauntless and ursine , and it made of Johnson a superb personality . But the broad base of common sense he is credited with having remains , I think , to be ...
He had ( as have many Tories ) a gouty independence of mind : it was rugged and dauntless and ursine , and it made of Johnson a superb personality . But the broad base of common sense he is credited with having remains , I think , to be ...
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For his talk , as for almost everything else , Johnson's debt to Boswell is enormous ; except for his satellite , he would today not be much more than a name : and we should marvel that he arose to dominate an age .
For his talk , as for almost everything else , Johnson's debt to Boswell is enormous ; except for his satellite , he would today not be much more than a name : and we should marvel that he arose to dominate an age .
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