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... means clear . Boswell transmits the testimony of the Rev. John Hussey that Johnson said ' he was not so much as acquainted with Savage when he wrote his London ' , yet in April 1738 The Gentleman's Magazine published Johnson's epigram ...
... means clear . Boswell transmits the testimony of the Rev. John Hussey that Johnson said ' he was not so much as acquainted with Savage when he wrote his London ' , yet in April 1738 The Gentleman's Magazine published Johnson's epigram ...
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... means clear which is uppermost in his description of those who prefer to experience a sense of importance in the eyes of others ' than glide through life with no other pleasure than the private consciousness of fidelity ' , 10 The essay ...
... means clear which is uppermost in his description of those who prefer to experience a sense of importance in the eyes of others ' than glide through life with no other pleasure than the private consciousness of fidelity ' , 10 The essay ...
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... means of disentangling ourselves from our own false motives , regular periods of contemplation : ' that we may , as Chillingworth expresses it , consider things as if there were no other beings in the world but God and ourselves ; or to ...
... means of disentangling ourselves from our own false motives , regular periods of contemplation : ' that we may , as Chillingworth expresses it , consider things as if there were no other beings in the world but God and ourselves ; or to ...
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surly virtue and pleasing dream | 4 |
The Vanity of Human Wishes | 42 |
those that aspire to the name | 57 |
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