Critical & Historical Essays, Volume 2J.M. Dent & Company, 1900 - 330 pages |
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Page 10
... turned Catholic is well known . It is said , ' cried Johnson , laughing , ' that he has been a Mahommedan . ' ' This sarcasm , " says the editor , ' probably alludes to the tenderness with which Gibbon's malevolence to Christianity ...
... turned Catholic is well known . It is said , ' cried Johnson , laughing , ' that he has been a Mahommedan . ' ' This sarcasm , " says the editor , ' probably alludes to the tenderness with which Gibbon's malevolence to Christianity ...
Page 11
... turning Mussulman . If such jokes were made , Johnson , who frequently visited Oxford , was very likely to hear of them . 1 Vol . v . 409 . 2 This paragraph has been altered ; and a slight inaccuracy immaterial to the argument , has ...
... turning Mussulman . If such jokes were made , Johnson , who frequently visited Oxford , was very likely to hear of them . 1 Vol . v . 409 . 2 This paragraph has been altered ; and a slight inaccuracy immaterial to the argument , has ...
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... turned into statesmen had been mere incumbrances to their party , dawdlers in office and mutes in Parliament . During the whole course of his administration , therefore , he scarcely befriended a single man of genius . The best writers ...
... turned into statesmen had been mere incumbrances to their party , dawdlers in office and mutes in Parliament . During the whole course of his administration , therefore , he scarcely befriended a single man of genius . The best writers ...
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... turned into bagnios and taverns . All order was destroyed ; all business was suspended . The most good - natured host began to repent of his eagerness to serve a man of genius in distress when he heard his guest roaring for fresh punch ...
... turned into bagnios and taverns . All order was destroyed ; all business was suspended . The most good - natured host began to repent of his eagerness to serve a man of genius in distress when he heard his guest roaring for fresh punch ...
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... turned his house into a place of refuge for a crowd of wretched old creatures who could find no other asylum ; nor could all their peevishness and ingratitude weary out his benevolence . But the pangs of wounded vanity seemed to him ...
... turned his house into a place of refuge for a crowd of wretched old creatures who could find no other asylum ; nor could all their peevishness and ingratitude weary out his benevolence . But the pangs of wounded vanity seemed to him ...
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