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Page 29
... journal . Experience gave him so little satisfaction in the retrospect , if it were not captured in his journal , that he writes : ' I should live no more than I can record . . . . There is a waste of good if it be not preserved . ' He ...
... journal . Experience gave him so little satisfaction in the retrospect , if it were not captured in his journal , that he writes : ' I should live no more than I can record . . . . There is a waste of good if it be not preserved . ' He ...
Page 30
... journals , and are nowhere else . There are , it is true , many ' papers apart ' , to which the journal refers ; and many of these are Johnsonian . But they were essentially pieces of the journal , and were ' apart ' only because they ...
... journals , and are nowhere else . There are , it is true , many ' papers apart ' , to which the journal refers ; and many of these are Johnsonian . But they were essentially pieces of the journal , and were ' apart ' only because they ...
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... journal of the Hebridean tour . Colonel Isham had already given or promised his subscribers more than full measure , and could not be asked to add another bulky journal . There were , moreover , difficulties of time and of plan ; the ...
... journal of the Hebridean tour . Colonel Isham had already given or promised his subscribers more than full measure , and could not be asked to add another bulky journal . There were , moreover , difficulties of time and of plan ; the ...
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Samuel Johnson | 1 |
Johnsons Reputation | 7 |
The Making of the Life of Johnson | 20 |
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