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" ... yet such an excessive humility, as if he had known nothing, that they frequently resorted and dwelt with him, as in a college situated in a purer air ; so that his house was a university in a less volume ; whither they came not so much for repose... "
The life of Samuel Johnson. [With] The principal corrections and additions ... - Seite 468
von James Boswell - 1807
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Boswell's Life of Johnson, Band 2

James Boswell - 1893 - 708 Seiten
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Library of the World's Best Literature: Ancient and Modern

Charles Dudley Warner - 1897 - 504 Seiten
...dwelt with him, as in a college situated in a purer air; so that his house was a university bound in a less volume, whither they came not so much for repose...propositions which laziness and consent made current in vulgar conversation. The great opinion he had of the uprightness and integrity of those persons who...
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Two Notebooks of Thomas Carlyle: From 23d March, 1822, to 16th May, 1832

Thomas Carlyle - 1898 - 348 Seiten
...to mankind, and of that primitive simplicity & integrity of life." Men came to him by his commerce " to examine and refine those grosser propositions, which laziness and consent made current in vulgar conversation." — Beautiful delineation of his character (p. 277) : a finer person, as here...
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Society and Solitude

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1899 - 330 Seiten
...and dwelt with him, as in a college situated in a purer air; so that his house was a university in a less volume, whither they came, not so much for repose...propositions which laziness and consent made current in vulgar conversation." I honor that man whose ambition it is, not to win laurels in the state or the...
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The Life of Samuel Johnson, L.L. D.: Together with a Journal of a ..., Band 3

James Boswell - 1900 - 556 Seiten
...so infinite a fancy, bound in by a most logical ratiocination. — His acquaintance was cultivated by the most polite and accurate men, so that his house was a University in less volume, whither they came not so much for repose as study, and to examine and...
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The Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Band 5

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1902 - 542 Seiten
...and dwelt with him, as in a college situated in a purer air ; so that his house was a university in a less volume, whither they came, not so much for repose...propositions which laziness and consent made current in vulgar conversation." I honour that man whose ambition it is, not to win laurels in the State or the...
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A History of English Poetry, Band 3

William John Courthope - 1903 - 590 Seiten
...him as in a college situated in a purer air ; so that his house was a university bound in a lesser volume, whither they came not so much for repose as...refine those grosser propositions which laziness and content made current in vulgar conversation. Of his political opinions Clarendon says : — In the...
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The Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: society & solitude. Letters & social aims ...

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1904 - 564 Seiten
...dwelt with him, as in a college situated in a purer air ; so that .his house was a university in a less volume, whither they came, not so much for repose as study, and to examine ar^d refine those grosser propositions which laziness and consent made current in vulgar conversation."...
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Highways and Byways in Oxford and the Cotswolds

Herbert Arthur Evans - 1905 - 392 Seiten
...him, as in a college situated in a purer air; so that his house was a university bound in a lesser volume, whither they came not so much for repose as...propositions which laziness and consent made current in vulgar conversation.'3 And elsewhere he writes : " The lord of the house did not even know of their...
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