The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Including a Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides, Volume 1Harper & Brothers, 1856 |
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... believe it . I say before you , you do not believe it , though you are very willing that the world should believe it . " Mr. M'Queen made no answer to this . Dr. Johnson proceeded : " I look upon M'Pherson's Fingal to be as gross an im ...
... believe it . I say before you , you do not believe it , though you are very willing that the world should believe it . " Mr. M'Queen made no answer to this . Dr. Johnson proceeded : " I look upon M'Pherson's Fingal to be as gross an im ...
Page 433
... believe we must take him At Mr. McPherson's , in Slate , he told us , apprentice . " BOSWELL . " He would grudge that " he knew a drum from a trumpet , and giving half a guinea to be taught . " JOHN- a bagpipe from a guitar , which was ...
... believe we must take him At Mr. McPherson's , in Slate , he told us , apprentice . " BOSWELL . " He would grudge that " he knew a drum from a trumpet , and giving half a guinea to be taught . " JOHN- a bagpipe from a guitar , which was ...
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... believe that this life is happy ; but they believe it only while they are saying it , and never yet produced conviction in a single mind : he whom want of words or images sunk into silence , still thought , as he thought be- fore , that ...
... believe that this life is happy ; but they believe it only while they are saying it , and never yet produced conviction in a single mind : he whom want of words or images sunk into silence , still thought , as he thought be- fore , that ...
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