 ... 619. Love of Literature. Dr. Johnson was of opinion that the happiest, as well as the most virtuous, persons were to be found amongst those who united with a business or profession a love of literature. 620. Marriage. — Choice of a Wife. He was...  The Devil's Spadeful; a Traditional Poem - Seite vivon George Griffith - 1839 - 36 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
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...echafaud,"— " he has built without his scaffold." 619. Love of Literature. Dr. Johnson was of opinion that the happiest, as well as the most virtuous, persons...with a business or profession a love of literature. 620. Marriage — Choice of a Wife. He was constantly earnest with his friends, when they had thoughts... | |
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...echafaud," — " he has built without his scaffold." 619. Love of Literature, Dr. Johnson was of opinion that the happiest, as well as the most virtuous, persons were to he found amongst those who united with a business or profession a love of literature. 620. Marriage... | |
 | John Wilson Croker - 1836 - 656 Seiten
...echafaud," — " he has built without his scaffold." 619. Love of Literature. Dr. Johnson was of opinion that the happiest, as well as the most virtuous, persons...with a business or profession a love of literature. 620. Marriage — Choice of a Wife. He was constantly earnest with his friends, when they had thoughts... | |
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...echafaud" — " he has built without his scaffold." 619. Love of Literature. Dr. Johnson was of opinion that the happiest, as well as the most virtuous, persons...with a business or profession a love of literature. 620. Marriage. — Choice of a Wife. He was constantly earnest with his friends, when they had thoughts... | |
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...echafaud," — " he has built without his scaffold." 619. Love of Literature. Dr. Johnson was of opinion that the happiest, as well as the most virtuous, persons...with a business or profession a love of literature. 620. Marriage. — Choice of a Wife. He was constantly earnest with his friends, when they had thoughts... | |
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...compilation to be not unworthy of its predecessors. GEORGE GRIFFITH. TO mt OF WHOM DR. SAMUEL JOHNSON SAID, THAT ' THE HAPPIEST AS WELL AS THE MOST VIRTUOUS PERSONS...WITH A BUSINESS OR PROFESSION A LOVE OF LITERATURE," THIS VOLUME BY GEORGE GRIFFITH. " There is a history in all men's lives, Figuring the nature of the... | |
 | Catherine Neal Parke - 1991 - 212 Seiten
...literature's fitting into life. William Seward remarked, for instance, that "Johnson was of the opinion that the happiest, as well as the most virtuous, persons...who united with a business or profession a love of literature."13 Hester Thrale noted that he "had never, by his own account, been a close student, and... | |
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