Boswell's Life of Johnson, Together with Boswell's Journal of a Tour of the Hebride and Johnson's Diary of a Journey Into North Wales, Nide 1Clarendon Press, 1934 - 556 sivua |
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... learning by regular gradations , as men of inferiour powers of mind . His own acquisitions had been made by fits and starts , by violent irruptions into the regions of knowledge ; and it could not be expected that his impatience would ...
... learning by regular gradations , as men of inferiour powers of mind . His own acquisitions had been made by fits and starts , by violent irruptions into the regions of knowledge ; and it could not be expected that his impatience would ...
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... learning , and for his learning I respect him , and I wish to serve him . He knows many languages , and knows them well ; but he knows nothing of life . I ad- vised him to write a geographical dictionary ; but I have lost all hopes of ...
... learning , and for his learning I respect him , and I wish to serve him . He knows many languages , and knows them well ; but he knows nothing of life . I ad- vised him to write a geographical dictionary ; but I have lost all hopes of ...
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... learning . ' JOHNSON . Why , Sir , that may be true in cases where learning cannot possibly be of any use ; for instance , this boy rows us as well without learning , as if he could sing the song of Orpheus to the Argonauts , who were ...
... learning . ' JOHNSON . Why , Sir , that may be true in cases where learning cannot possibly be of any use ; for instance , this boy rows us as well without learning , as if he could sing the song of Orpheus to the Argonauts , who were ...
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DR HILLS DEDICATION TO JOWETT | xxix |
TITLEPAGE OF THE THIRD EDITION | xlvii |
Advertisement to the Life | 23 |
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