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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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His answer was , “ Tell her that I cannot be well , for she does not come to see me
. ” — Hawk . Mem , vol . ii . p . 149.-Ed. ] " Your notes on Alfred i appear to me very
1781. - ÆTAT . 72 .
His answer was , “ Tell her that I cannot be well , for she does not come to see me
. ” — Hawk . Mem , vol . ii . p . 149.-Ed. ] " Your notes on Alfred i appear to me very
1781. - ÆTAT . 72 .
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If you consent , pray tell the messenger to bring Holder to me . “ When you shall
be gone whither shall I turn myself ? ” _ ED . ] Soon after the above letter , Dr.
Lawrence left London , but not before the palsy had made so great a progress as
to ...
If you consent , pray tell the messenger to bring Holder to me . “ When you shall
be gone whither shall I turn myself ? ” _ ED . ] Soon after the above letter , Dr.
Lawrence left London , but not before the palsy had made so great a progress as
to ...
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... used to tell me , I owe your acquaintance , died a few weeks ago , suddenly in
his bed ; there passed not , I believe , a minute between health and death . At
night , at Mrs. Thrale's , as I was musing in my chamber , I thought with
uncommon ...
... used to tell me , I owe your acquaintance , died a few weeks ago , suddenly in
his bed ; there passed not , I believe , a minute between health and death . At
night , at Mrs. Thrale's , as I was musing in my chamber , I thought with
uncommon ...
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... tenderness expressed in your kind letter makes me think it necessary to tell you
that they who are pleased to wish me well , need not be any longer particularly
solicitous about me . I prevailed on my physician to bleed me very copiously ...
... tenderness expressed in your kind letter makes me think it necessary to tell you
that they who are pleased to wish me well , need not be any longer particularly
solicitous about me . I prevailed on my physician to bleed me very copiously ...
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| 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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