Johnsonian Miscellanies, Volume 2George Birkbeck Norman Hill Barnes & Noble, 1966 - 488 pages |
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... mean and grovelling in disposi- tion , but absolutely dishonest . After the death of Dr. Johnson , he , as one of his executors , laid hold of his watch and several trinkets , coins , & c . , which he said he should take to himself for ...
... mean and grovelling in disposi- tion , but absolutely dishonest . After the death of Dr. Johnson , he , as one of his executors , laid hold of his watch and several trinkets , coins , & c . , which he said he should take to himself for ...
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... mean to be uncivil . " JOHNSON . " I cannot say so , Sir ; for I did mean to be uncivil , thinking you had been un- civil . " Life , iii . 273 . 66 ' We walked in the evening in Greenwich Park . He asked me , I suppose , by way of ...
... mean to be uncivil . " JOHNSON . " I cannot say so , Sir ; for I did mean to be uncivil , thinking you had been un- civil . " Life , iii . 273 . 66 ' We walked in the evening in Greenwich Park . He asked me , I suppose , by way of ...
Page 245
... mean ambition of living with the great , terribly afraid of making himself cheap even with them ; by which he debarred himself of much pleasant society . Employing so much attention , and so much management upon such little things ...
... mean ambition of living with the great , terribly afraid of making himself cheap even with them ; by which he debarred himself of much pleasant society . Employing so much attention , and so much management upon such little things ...
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Apophthegms c from Hawkinss Edition of Johnsons Works | 21 |
Anecdotes from the Rev Dr Thomas Campbells Diary of a Visit | 39 |
Anecdotes from Penningtons Memoirs of Mrs Carter | 58 |
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