The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides, with Samuel Johnson, LL. D.Henry Baldwin, 1785 - 524 страници |
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... fore rubs from Dr. Johnson , on account of the unhappy difference in their politics , upon my repeating this paffage to him , exclaimed , " Oil of Vitriol ! " " and " and therefore I hope you will , without delay [ 4. ]
... fore rubs from Dr. Johnson , on account of the unhappy difference in their politics , upon my repeating this paffage to him , exclaimed , " Oil of Vitriol ! " " and " and therefore I hope you will , without delay [ 4. ]
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... hope to have " the honour of paying my refpects to Mr. Johnson and you , about a week or ten days " hence . I fhall then do what I can , to en- " force the topic you mention ; but at prefent " I cannot enter upon it , as I am in a very ...
... hope to have " the honour of paying my refpects to Mr. Johnson and you , about a week or ten days " hence . I fhall then do what I can , to en- " force the topic you mention ; but at prefent " I cannot enter upon it , as I am in a very ...
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... hope , now that it has pleased ALMIGHTY GOD to call him to a better world , will ferve to introduce to the fancy of my readers the capital object of the following journal , in the courfe of which I truft they will attain to a ...
... hope , now that it has pleased ALMIGHTY GOD to call him to a better world , will ferve to introduce to the fancy of my readers the capital object of the following journal , in the courfe of which I truft they will attain to a ...
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... hope " for it , and to see you at my house . I am to " wait on you to - morrow . " This respectable English judge will be long remembered in Scotland , where he built an elegant house , and lived in it magnificently . His own ample ...
... hope " for it , and to see you at my house . I am to " wait on you to - morrow . " This respectable English judge will be long remembered in Scotland , where he built an elegant house , and lived in it magnificently . His own ample ...
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... hope not . If I did , I should frighten the ghoft . " 66 66 Monday , 16th Auguft . Dr. William Robertfon came to breakfast . We talked of Ogden on Prayer . Dr. Johnson faid , " The fame arguments which are used against God's hearing ...
... hope not . If I did , I should frighten the ghoft . " 66 66 Monday , 16th Auguft . Dr. William Robertfon came to breakfast . We talked of Ogden on Prayer . Dr. Johnson faid , " The fame arguments which are used against God's hearing ...
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