The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.J. Murray, 1831 |
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... mind ; many are not sufficiently developed and expanded for the com- mon reader : it wants every where to be made smoother and plainer . " You may , by revisal and correction , make it a very elegant and a very curious work . I am , my ...
... mind ; many are not sufficiently developed and expanded for the com- mon reader : it wants every where to be made smoother and plainer . " You may , by revisal and correction , make it a very elegant and a very curious work . I am , my ...
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... mind , even in ele- gant literature , at a very advanced period of life , and when afflicted with many complaints ! & Med . p . 198 . In autumn he went to Oxford , Birmingham , Lich- field , and Ashbourne , for which very good reasons ...
... mind , even in ele- gant literature , at a very advanced period of life , and when afflicted with many complaints ! & Med . p . 198 . In autumn he went to Oxford , Birmingham , Lich- field , and Ashbourne , for which very good reasons ...
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... mind every now and then to think myself better , and I now hope to be better under your care . ” " Lichfield , 3d December , 1781 . " I am now come back to Lichfield , where I do not intend to stay long enough to receive another letter ...
... mind every now and then to think myself better , and I now hope to be better under your care . ” " Lichfield , 3d December , 1781 . " I am now come back to Lichfield , where I do not intend to stay long enough to receive another letter ...
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... mind were in no degree im- paired . " TO JAMES BOSWELL , ESQ . " 5th January , 1782 . " DEAR SIR , -I sit down to answer your letter on the same day in which I received it , and am pleased that my first letter of the year is to you . No ...
... mind were in no degree im- paired . " TO JAMES BOSWELL , ESQ . " 5th January , 1782 . " DEAR SIR , -I sit down to answer your letter on the same day in which I received it , and am pleased that my first letter of the year is to you . No ...
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... mind , and his tongue in his mind , and his right hand , we should not much lament the rest . I should not despair of helping the swelled hand by electricity , if it were fre- quently and diligently supplied . " Let me know from time to ...
... mind , and his tongue in his mind , and his right hand , we should not much lament the rest . I should not despair of helping the swelled hand by electricity , if it were fre- quently and diligently supplied . " Let me know from time to ...
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