The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Including a Journal of His Tour to the Hebrides, Том 7H.G. Bohn, 1848 |
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... Asking Questions . Hulks . ―― Foreign Travel . - Short Hand.- Dodd's Poems . - Pennant . —Johnson and Percy . Stratagem . Correspondence . CHAPTER IV . 1778 . · Page 82 " Chapter concerning Snakes . " - Writing . - Styles in Painting ...
... Asking Questions . Hulks . ―― Foreign Travel . - Short Hand.- Dodd's Poems . - Pennant . —Johnson and Percy . Stratagem . Correspondence . CHAPTER IV . 1778 . · Page 82 " Chapter concerning Snakes . " - Writing . - Styles in Painting ...
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... asked if Burnet had not given a good life of Rochester . JOHNSON . " We have a good Death ; there is not much Life . " I asked whether Prior's poems were to be printed entire : Johnson said they were . mentioned Lord Hailes's censure of ...
... asked if Burnet had not given a good life of Rochester . JOHNSON . " We have a good Death ; there is not much Life . " I asked whether Prior's poems were to be printed entire : Johnson said they were . mentioned Lord Hailes's censure of ...
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... asked Mr. Maclaurin , with a face of flippant assurance , " Are these words your own ? " ( 3 ) Afterwards a lord of session , by the title of Lord Meadow . bank , and father of the present Lord Meadowbank . — C. distinguished himself on ...
... asked Mr. Maclaurin , with a face of flippant assurance , " Are these words your own ? " ( 3 ) Afterwards a lord of session , by the title of Lord Meadow . bank , and father of the present Lord Meadowbank . — C. distinguished himself on ...
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... would have driven him from his shop ! " I told him that I was engaged as counsel at the bar of these of commons to oppose a road - bill 247 in the county of Stirling , and asked him what E 2 ÆTAT . 69 . 51 BOLT COURT .
... would have driven him from his shop ! " I told him that I was engaged as counsel at the bar of these of commons to oppose a road - bill 247 in the county of Stirling , and asked him what E 2 ÆTAT . 69 . 51 BOLT COURT .
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... asked him what mode he would advise me to follow in addressing such an audience . JOHNSON . " Why , Sir , you must provide yourself with a good deal of extraneous matter , which you are to produce occasionally , so as to fill up the ...
... asked him what mode he would advise me to follow in addressing such an audience . JOHNSON . " Why , Sir , you must provide yourself with a good deal of extraneous matter , which you are to produce occasionally , so as to fill up the ...
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