 Cross, and are likely to be read as long as the English exists, either as a living or as a dead language. Nature had made him a slave and an idolater. His mind resembled those creepers which the botanists call parasites, and which can subsist only by...  Macaulay's Life of Samuel Johnson - Page 30de Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1896 - 67 pagesAffichage du livre entier - À propos de ce livre
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...eloquence, is apparent from hi* writings. And yet his writings are read beyond the Mississippi and under the Southern Cross,* and are likely to be read as long...exists, either as a living or as a dead language. Nature has made him a slave and an idolater. His mind resembles those creepers which the botanists call parasites,... | |
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