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" ... friendship, that among the multitudes whom vanity or curiosity, civility or veneration, crowded about him, he did not expect, that very spacious apartments would be necessary to contain all that should regard him with sincere kindness, or adhere to... "
A Neutral Being Between the Sexes: Samuel Johnson's Sexual Politics - Page 26
by Kathleen Nulton Kemmerer - 1998 - 155 pages
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The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: An essay on the life and genius of ...

Samuel Johnson - 1837 - 630 pages
...to contain all that should regard him with sincere kindness, or adhere to him with steady fidelity. So many qualities are indeed requisite to the possibility...of friendship, and so many accidents must concur to ita rise and its continuance, that the greatest part of mankind content themselves without it, and...
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The Life and Writings of Samuel Johnson...

Samuel Johnson - 1840 - 334 pages
...to contain all that should regard him with sincere kindness or adhere to him with steady fidelity. So many qualities are indeed requisite to the possibility...and supply its place as they can with interest and dependance. Multitudes are unqualified for a constant and warm reciprocation of benevolence, as they...
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The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.

Samuel Johnson - 1840 - 624 pages
...to contain all that should regard him with sincere kindness, or adhere to him with steady fidelity. So many qualities are indeed requisite to the possibility...and supply its place as they can, with interest and dépendance. Multitudes arc unqualified for a constant and warm reciprocation of benevolence, as thev...
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The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: With an Essay on His Life and ..., Volume 1

Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1843 - 624 pages
...to contain. all that should regard him with sincere kindness, or adhere to him with steady fidelity. So many qualities are indeed requisite to the possibility...mankind content themselves without it, and supply it.* place as they can, with interest and dépendance. Multitudes are unqualified for a constant and...
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The Beauties of Johnson: Choice Selections from His Works

Samuel Johnson - 1851 - 360 pages
...Friendship. So many qualities are necessary to the possibility of friendship, and so many accidents m st concur to its rise and its continuance, that the greatest...its place as they can with interest and dependence. md. vol. 2. Many have talked in very exalted language of the perpetuity of friendship ; of invincible...
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The Beauties of Johnson: Choice Selections from His Works

Samuel Johnson - 1853 - 336 pages
...Friendship. So many qualities are necessary to tho possibility of friendship, and so many accidents in ist concur to its rise and its continuance, that the greatest...its place as they can with interest and dependence, ibid. vol. 3. Many have talked in very exalted language of the perpetuity of friendship ; of invincible...
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The Autobiography of a Landlady of the Old School

Sophia Hayes Wyatt - 1854 - 308 pages
...possibility of friendship among men, and so many favorable circumstances must concur to its rise and continuance, that the greatest part of mankind content...its place as they can with interest and dependence. The generality of mankind are unqualified for a constant and warm interchange of benevolence, as indeed...
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Sayings about friendship; with some reflections thereon. An unphilosophical ...

Sayings - 1864 - 152 pages
...profaned, and the reality of friendship has come to be doubted. "So many qualities," says Dr. Johnson, " are indeed requisite to the possibility of friendship,...and so many accidents must concur to its rise and continuance, that the greatest part of mankind content themselves without it, and supply its place...
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Wisdom and Genius of Dr. Samuel Johnson: Selected from His Prose Writings

Samuel Johnson, William Alexander Clouston - 1875 - 346 pages
...tender and unwilling to give pain, or they are interested and fearful to offend. So many qualities are requisite to the possibility of friendship, and so many accidents must concur to its rise and continuance, that the greatest part of mankind content themselves without it, and supply its place,...
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Prose Quotations from Socrates to Macaulay: With Indexes...

Samuel Austin Allibone - 1876 - 768 pages
...to contain all that should regard him with sincere kindness or adhere to him with steady fidelity. So many qualities are indeed requisite to the possibility of friendship, and so many accidents muM concur to its rise and. its continuance, lhat the greatest part of mankind content themselves without...
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