Johnsonian Miscellanies, Volume 2George Birkbeck Norman Hill Harper and Brothers, 1897 |
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... speaking of the disorder of a poor man that understood Latin , and who was brought into an hospital ; corpus non tam vile est , says the patient , pro quo Christus ipse non dedignatus est mori " . Johnson used to say , a man was a ...
... speaking of the disorder of a poor man that understood Latin , and who was brought into an hospital ; corpus non tam vile est , says the patient , pro quo Christus ipse non dedignatus est mori " . Johnson used to say , a man was a ...
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... speak . ' He adds : - ' I have spent some years in labouring to acquire the art of giving a vernacular cast to the Eng- lish we write . ' Forbes's Beattie , p . 243 . 5 Doubtless Goldsmith's His- tory is better than the verbiage of ...
... speak . ' He adds : - ' I have spent some years in labouring to acquire the art of giving a vernacular cast to the Eng- lish we write . ' Forbes's Beattie , p . 243 . 5 Doubtless Goldsmith's His- tory is better than the verbiage of ...
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... Speaking one day of tea , he said , —What a delightful beverage must that be , that pleases all palates , at a time when they can take nothing else at breakfast " ! To his censure of fear in general , he made however one exception ...
... Speaking one day of tea , he said , —What a delightful beverage must that be , that pleases all palates , at a time when they can take nothing else at breakfast " ! To his censure of fear in general , he made however one exception ...
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... Speaking of schoolmasters , he used to say , they were worse than the Egyptian task - masters of old . No boy , says he , is sure any day he goes to school to escape a whipping : how can the schoolmaster tell what the boy has really ...
... Speaking of schoolmasters , he used to say , they were worse than the Egyptian task - masters of old . No boy , says he , is sure any day he goes to school to escape a whipping : how can the schoolmaster tell what the boy has really ...
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... speaking will say next : this you can never do of Johnson : his images , his allusions , his great powers of ridicule throw the appearance of novelty upon the most common conversation 2 . He was extremely fond of Dr. Hammond's Works3 ...
... speaking will say next : this you can never do of Johnson : his images , his allusions , his great powers of ridicule throw the appearance of novelty upon the most common conversation 2 . He was extremely fond of Dr. Hammond's Works3 ...
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