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" I hoped you had got rid of all this hypocrisy of misery. What have you to do with Liberty and Necessity? Or what more than to hold your tongue about it? "
Boswell's Johnson: The Life of Samuel Johnson - Page 251
by James Boswell - 1923 - 343 pages
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The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Comprehending an Account of His ..., Volume 2

James Boswell - Authors, English - 1791 - 608 pages
...what more than to hold your tongue about it ? Do not doubt but I fhall be moft heartily glad to fee you here again, for I love every part about you but your affectation of diftrefs. " I have at laft finifhed my Lives, and have laid up for you a load of copy, all out of order,...
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The life of Samuel Johnson, Volume 2

James Boswell - 1817 - 536 pages
...Necessity; — and mentioning that I hoped soon to meet him again in London. TO JAMES BOSWELL ESQ. DEAR SIR, I hoped you had got rid of all this hypocrisy of misery....here again, for I love every part about you but your affecta* tion of distress. I have at lust finished my Lives, and have laid up for you a load of copy,...
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The life of Samuel Johnson, Volume 2

James Boswell - 1820 - 550 pages
...— and mentioning that I hoped soon to meet him again in London. tO JAMES BOSWELL ESQ. ПУЛИ MR, I hoped you had got rid of all this hypocrisy of misery....Necessity ? Or what more than to hold your tongue aboutit? Do not doubt but I »hall be most heartily glad to see you here again, tor I love every part...
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The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.

James Boswell - 1823 - 440 pages
...and mentioning that I hoped soon to meet him again in London. "TO JAMES BOSWELL, ESQ. " DEAR SIR, " I HOPED you had got rid of all this hypocrisy of misery....every part about you but your affectation of distress. laid up for you a load of copy, all out of order, so that it will amuse you a long time to set it right....
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The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Comprehending an Account of His Studies ...

James Boswell - Authors, English - 1827 - 622 pages
...and mentioning that I hoped soon to meet him again in London. "TO JAMES BOSWELL, ESO. " DEAR SIR, " gne. nave at last finished my Lives, and have laid up for you. a load of copy, all out of order, so that...
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The life of Samuel Johnson. [Followed by] The journal of a tour to ..., Volume 4

James Boswell - 1851 - 322 pages
...that I hoped soon to meet him again in London. i " TO JAMES BOSWELL, ESQ. "DEAR SIn, March 14, 1781. " I hoped you had got rid of all this hypocrisy of misery....see you here again, for I love every part about you hut your affectation of distress. " I have at last finished my Lives, and have laid up for you a load...
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The Life and Times of Oliver Goldsmith, Volume 2

John Forster - 1854 - 572 pages
...for it. " I hoped you had got rid of all this hypocrisy of misery," he says to him on one occasion. "What have you to do with liberty and necessity? or " what more than to hold your tongue about it ?" (viii. 42-3.) Still poor Bozzy would fall again into his fit, and ask him what vms the use of all...
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The Life and Times of Oliver Goldsmith, Volume 2

John Forster - 1854 - 578 pages
...stumbled spirits, very sincere in its way, I have no doubt, though Johnson had no toleration for it. "I hoped you had got rid of all this hypocrisy of misery," he says to him on one occasion. "What have yon to do with liberty and necessity ? or " what more than...
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The Dublin Review, Volume 50

Nicholas Patrick Wiseman - 1861 - 1116 pages
...we should have done very well without them.' " This reminds us of Dr. Johnson's retort to Boswell, ' What have you to do with liberty and necessity ? Or what more than to hold your tongue about them ? ' " On another occasion, Parr said to Porson : ' Mr. Porson, with all your learning, I do not...
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The Life of Richard Porson, M. A.: Professor of Greek in the University of ...

John Selby Watson - Classicists - 1861 - 468 pages
...we should have done very well without them." * This reminds us of Dr. Johnson's retort to Boswell, " What have you to do with liberty and necessity ? Or what more than to hold your tongue about them ? " On another occasion, Parr said to Porson : " Mr. Porson, with all your learning, I do not...
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