In Mind of Johnson: A Study of Johnson the Rambler |
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... kind ; for every man would be a distinct species to himself , were there no sympathy among individuals . For Johnson - a man who trusted the wisdom of the species as it was preserved in its language - ' kind ' was a noun long before it ...
... kind ; for every man would be a distinct species to himself , were there no sympathy among individuals . For Johnson - a man who trusted the wisdom of the species as it was preserved in its language - ' kind ' was a noun long before it ...
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... kind , as , that without alarming us by the horrours of its appearance , and shocking us with the enormity of any single acts , may , by slow advances , possess the soul , and in destroying us differ only from the atrociousness of more ...
... kind , as , that without alarming us by the horrours of its appearance , and shocking us with the enormity of any single acts , may , by slow advances , possess the soul , and in destroying us differ only from the atrociousness of more ...
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... kind means the balancing of scepticism and generosity in a way that goes deeper than any merely mental calculation of their relation could provide . Two things have grown together into one , as in the way Johnson noted that Levet was ...
... kind means the balancing of scepticism and generosity in a way that goes deeper than any merely mental calculation of their relation could provide . Two things have grown together into one , as in the way Johnson noted that Levet was ...
Contents
Almost every man will be found to have enlisted | 10 |
Discoursing like an angel living like a | 21 |
The System of Life | 42 |
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