In Mind of Johnson: A Study of Johnson the Rambler |
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... strength had been that he had learnt from his own errors : because he had not lived like a philosopher , he was able at another level to write like one . By an act that was like his later sympathy for others but was an internal reverse ...
... strength had been that he had learnt from his own errors : because he had not lived like a philosopher , he was able at another level to write like one . By an act that was like his later sympathy for others but was an internal reverse ...
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... strength of the moralist proceeded even while the man was twitchingly thinking of his personal weakness ; the strength partly deriving from the memory of the weakness , even while simultaneously the weakness remained in shameful memory ...
... strength of the moralist proceeded even while the man was twitchingly thinking of his personal weakness ; the strength partly deriving from the memory of the weakness , even while simultaneously the weakness remained in shameful memory ...
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... strength there was a weakness , for every weakness a strength , but for him that was just mental knowledge . You had then still to choose the most rational way - getting on with it rather than procrastinating - even if that way was so ...
... strength there was a weakness , for every weakness a strength , but for him that was just mental knowledge . You had then still to choose the most rational way - getting on with it rather than procrastinating - even if that way was so ...
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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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