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Endeavouring to make children prematurely wise is useless labour.1 Getting at Dr. Johnson's thinking on any subject is a fascinating game of putting together the splinters of his thought which we may find especially in his journalistic ...
Endeavouring to make children prematurely wise is useless labour.1 Getting at Dr. Johnson's thinking on any subject is a fascinating game of putting together the splinters of his thought which we may find especially in his journalistic ...
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Regret ably , we do not know if Johnson advised here as well . He did , however , recognize the differences between the big - city the schools ( which Goldsmith favored ) and the private country school which Milton and Locke had exalted ...
Regret ably , we do not know if Johnson advised here as well . He did , however , recognize the differences between the big - city the schools ( which Goldsmith favored ) and the private country school which Milton and Locke had exalted ...
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Dr. Adam Smith , Boswell's former teacher at Glas- gow , claimed that Johnson " knew more books than any man alive . " " 21 Yet he was always impatient in his reading and writ- ing , as his correspondents could testify .
Dr. Adam Smith , Boswell's former teacher at Glas- gow , claimed that Johnson " knew more books than any man alive . " " 21 Yet he was always impatient in his reading and writ- ing , as his correspondents could testify .
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