The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.J. Murray, 1831 |
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... believe is my real opinion . " However , it cannot be published in its present state . Many of your notions seem not to be very clear in your own mind ; many are not sufficiently developed and expanded for the com- mon reader : it wants ...
... believe is my real opinion . " However , it cannot be published in its present state . Many of your notions seem not to be very clear in your own mind ; many are not sufficiently developed and expanded for the com- mon reader : it wants ...
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... believe Mrs. Aston will be glad to see me . We have known each other long , and , by consequence , are both old ; and she is paralytick ; and if I do not see her soon , I may see her no more in this world . To make a visit on such ...
... believe Mrs. Aston will be glad to see me . We have known each other long , and , by consequence , are both old ; and she is paralytick ; and if I do not see her soon , I may see her no more in this world . To make a visit on such ...
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... believe , never brought . 66 My health has been tottering this last year ; and I can give no very laudable account of my time . I am always hoping to do better than I have ever hitherto done . 66 My journey to Ashbourne and ...
... believe , never brought . 66 My health has been tottering this last year ; and I can give no very laudable account of my time . I am always hoping to do better than I have ever hitherto done . 66 My journey to Ashbourne and ...
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... believe they are of very low con- dition . “ To be sick , and to see nothing but sickness and death , is but a gloomy state : but I hope better times , even in this world , will come , and whatever this world may withhold or give , we ...
... believe they are of very low con- dition . “ To be sick , and to see nothing but sickness and death , is but a gloomy state : but I hope better times , even in this world , will come , and whatever this world may withhold or give , we ...
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... believe with what gladness I read that you had heard once again that voice to which we have all so often delighted to attend . May you often hear it . If we had his mind , and his tongue , we could spare the rest . " I am not vigorous ...
... believe with what gladness I read that you had heard once again that voice to which we have all so often delighted to attend . May you often hear it . If we had his mind , and his tongue , we could spare the rest . " I am not vigorous ...
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