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DEAR SIR , —How welcome your account of yourself and your invitation to your
new house was to me , I need not tell you , who consider our friendship not only
as formed by choice , but as matured by time . We have been now long enough ...
DEAR SIR , —How welcome your account of yourself and your invitation to your
new house was to me , I need not tell you , who consider our friendship not only
as formed by choice , but as matured by time . We have been now long enough ...
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What we shall do in the summer , it is yet too early to consider . You want to know
what you shall do now ; I do not think this time of bustle and confusion ' like to
produce any advantage to you . Every man has those to reward and gratify who ...
What we shall do in the summer , it is yet too early to consider . You want to know
what you shall do now ; I do not think this time of bustle and confusion ' like to
produce any advantage to you . Every man has those to reward and gratify who ...
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Consider a man whose fortune is very narrow ; whatever be his rank by birth , or
whatever his reputation by intellectual excellence , what can he do ? or what evil
can he prevent ? That he cannot help the needy is evident ; he has nothing to ...
Consider a man whose fortune is very narrow ; whatever be his rank by birth , or
whatever his reputation by intellectual excellence , what can he do ? or what evil
can he prevent ? That he cannot help the needy is evident ; he has nothing to ...
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REVEREND SIR , —That I have long omitted to return you thanks for the honour
conferred upon me by your dedication , I entreat you with great earnestness not
to consider as more faulty than it is . A very importunate and oppressive disorder
...
REVEREND SIR , —That I have long omitted to return you thanks for the honour
conferred upon me by your dedication , I entreat you with great earnestness not
to consider as more faulty than it is . A very importunate and oppressive disorder
...
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DEAR SIR , -It was not insensibility of your kindness , I hope , that made me
negligent of answering your letter , for which I now return you thanks , and which I
consider as a fresh proof of your regard . a name . What will the world do but look
on ...
DEAR SIR , -It was not insensibility of your kindness , I hope , that made me
negligent of answering your letter , for which I now return you thanks , and which I
consider as a fresh proof of your regard . a name . What will the world do but look
on ...
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Bibliographic information
| Title | The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. Volume 5 of The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D, John Wilson Croker |
| Author | James Boswell |
| Editor | John Wilson Croker |
| Publisher | J. Murray, 1831 |
| Original from | The Ohio State University |
| Digitized | 9 Aug 2016 |
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