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" Why, Sir, you \ find no man, at all intellectual, who is willing to leave London. \ No, Sir, when a man is tired of London, he is tired of life ; for there is in London all that life can afford. "
The life of Samuel Johnson ... together with A journal of a tour to the ... - Página 219
por James Boswell - 1874
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London 1753

Sheila O'Connell - 2003 - 300 páginas
...occasional visits might go off, and I might grow tired of it.' Johnson entertained no such reservations: 'Why, Sir, you find no man, at all intellectual, who...for there is in London all that life can afford.' 1 Reddaway. 2 I.1ndsav. 3 For a masterly account sec Summerson. 4 Summerson, Wren. T Defoe. 6 Thomson....
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Scotland Resurgent: Comments on the Cultural and Political Revival of Scotland

Paul Henderson Scott - 2003 - 372 páginas
...melancholy was as clearly dissipated as if it had never existed in my mind. Johnson, you remember, said that "when a man is tired of London he is tired of life;...for there is in London all that life can afford", but he also said that he had never known a man "with such a gust" for London as Boswell. 4 His longing...
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Favourite Wisdom

Deborah Cassidi - 2003 - 196 páginas
...Flossenberg concentration camp on 9 April 1945. A week later the camp was liberated by the Allies. When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford. Dr. Samuel Johnson (1709-84), quoted in Boswell's Life of Samu 20 September 1777 'Having lived for...
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Our Greatest Writers: And Their Major Works

John Carrington - 2003 - 344 páginas
...a genius that could cut a colossus from a rock; but he could not carve heads upon cherry stones. - When a man is tired of London he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford. - Were it not for imagination, sir, a man would be as happy in the arms of a chambermaid as of a duchess....
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Cry Havoc: A Peter Ashton Novel

Clive Egleton - 2003 - 392 páginas
...Houses of Parliament a mile downriver was wasted on Hugo Calthorpe. Dr Johnson might have observed, 'When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford' but Calthorpe had always hated the place, as did his wife. With the exception of eighteen months on...
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The Autobiography of a Nation: The 1951 Exhibition of Britain, Representing ...

Becky Conekin - 2003 - 276 páginas
...brochure, specially designed for the Festival summer, commenced with Samuel Johnson's famous claim that: 'when a man is tired of London, he is tired of life, for there is in London all that life can afford'.6 London was written into the story of the 'autobiography of a nation' in predictable terms...
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Let's Go Japan 1st Ed

Let's Go Inc. - 2003 - 784 páginas
...Tokyo is Japan: the main line, the pure source. Samuel Johnson said "When one is tired of London, one is tired of life, for there is in London all that life can afford." Ditto for Tokyo. But it's a hard city to find. It's easy to be overwhelmed by the densely packed grays...
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Knowledge Spillovers and Knowledge Management

Charlie Karlsson, Per Flensburg, Sven-Åke Hörte - 2004 - 528 páginas
...London played such a small part, both in 1 900 and after 1945. After all, and as Samuel Johnson said, 'When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life;...for there is in London all that life can afford.' Why, then, was Vienna, not London, the art world's second capital in 1900? Not only because it boasted...
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GMAT Prep Course

Jeff Kolby - 2024 - 586 páginas
...to be central to the human condition. — Milton Mayeroff, On Caring Solutions to Warm-Up Drill I 1. When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life: for there is in London all that life can afford. — Samuel Johnson 2. The conclusion is not stated, but the arguer implies that watching violent movies...
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GRE Prep Course

Jeff Kolby - 2021 - 612 páginas
...conclusion, complete it with the most natural conclusion. Answers and solutions begin on page 598. 1. When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford. — Samuel Johnson 2. Some psychiatrists claim that watching violent movies dissipates aggression....
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