The life of Samuel Johnson. [Followed by] The journal of a tour to the Hebrides, Том 51852 |
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... Present state of the island of Col 235 OCTOBER 9.-Dr. Johnson's avidity for a variety of books , Improbability of a High- land tradition . Dr. Johnson's delicacy of feeling 240 · OCTOBER 10. - Dependence of tenants on landlords OCTOBER ...
... Present state of the island of Col 235 OCTOBER 9.-Dr. Johnson's avidity for a variety of books , Improbability of a High- land tradition . Dr. Johnson's delicacy of feeling 240 · OCTOBER 10. - Dependence of tenants on landlords OCTOBER ...
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... present publication . Your literary alliance with our much lamented friend , in consequence of having undertaken to render one of his labours more com- plete , by your edition of Shakspeare , a work which I am confident will not ...
... present publication . Your literary alliance with our much lamented friend , in consequence of having undertaken to render one of his labours more com- plete , by your edition of Shakspeare , a work which I am confident will not ...
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... present sub- ject , I wrote as follows : " Our friend , Mr. Samuel Johnson , is in great health and spirits ; and , I do think , has a serious resolution to visit Scotland this year . The more attraction , however , the better ; and ...
... present sub- ject , I wrote as follows : " Our friend , Mr. Samuel Johnson , is in great health and spirits ; and , I do think , has a serious resolution to visit Scotland this year . The more attraction , however , the better ; and ...
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... present I cannot enter upon it , as I am in a very great hurry ; for I intend to begin my journey within an hour or two . " He was as good as his word , and threw some pleasing motives into the northern scale . But , indeed , Mr ...
... present I cannot enter upon it , as I am in a very great hurry ; for I intend to begin my journey within an hour or two . " He was as good as his word , and threw some pleasing motives into the northern scale . But , indeed , Mr ...
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... present reign , observe , that " walking the streets of Edinburgh at night was pretty perilous , and a good deal odoriferous . " The peril is much abated , by the care which the magistrates have taken to enforce the city laws against ...
... present reign , observe , that " walking the streets of Edinburgh at night was pretty perilous , and a good deal odoriferous . " The peril is much abated , by the care which the magistrates have taken to enforce the city laws against ...
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