The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: Comprehending an Account of His Studies and Works, in Chronological Order : a Series of His Epistolary Correspondence, Conversations with Many Eminent Persons, and Original Pieces of His Composition : the Whole Exhibiting a View of Literature and Literary Men in Great Britain, for Near Half a Century During which He Flourished, Volume 3 |
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On Sunday , March 31st , I called on him , and showed him as a curiosity which I had discovered , his translation of Lobo's Account of Abyssinia , which sir John Pringle had lent me , it being then little known as one of his works .
On Sunday , March 31st , I called on him , and showed him as a curiosity which I had discovered , his translation of Lobo's Account of Abyssinia , which sir John Pringle had lent me , it being then little known as one of his works .
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dinner at sir John Pringle's ; and he was much pleased with the conscientious accuracy of that celebrated circumnavigator , who set me right as to many of the exaggerated accounts given by Dr. Hawkesworth of his voyages .
dinner at sir John Pringle's ; and he was much pleased with the conscientious accuracy of that celebrated circumnavigator , who set me right as to many of the exaggerated accounts given by Dr. Hawkesworth of his voyages .
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... the bookseller who was the proprietor of the work , upon being applied to by sir John Pringle , agreed very handsomely to have the leaf on which it was contained cancelled , and reprinted without it , at his own expense .
... the bookseller who was the proprietor of the work , upon being applied to by sir John Pringle , agreed very handsomely to have the leaf on which it was contained cancelled , and reprinted without it , at his own expense .
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1 There is an account of him in sir John Hawkins's Life of Johnson , p . 244 . -Boswell . Ballow is described by sir John Hawkins , in the passage referred to by Boswell , as a " lawyer by profession , but of no practice : he having by ...
1 There is an account of him in sir John Hawkins's Life of Johnson , p . 244 . -Boswell . Ballow is described by sir John Hawkins , in the passage referred to by Boswell , as a " lawyer by profession , but of no practice : he having by ...
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The grand object of travelling is to see the shores of the Mediterranean . On those shores were 5 Some excellent remarks on this subject , interspersed with amusing greenroom anecdotes , may be found in a review of Boader's Life of John ...
The grand object of travelling is to see the shores of the Mediterranean . On those shores were 5 Some excellent remarks on this subject , interspersed with amusing greenroom anecdotes , may be found in a review of Boader's Life of John ...
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| Title | The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: Comprehending an Account of His Studies and Works, in Chronological Order : a Series of His Epistolary Correspondence, Conversations with Many Eminent Persons, and Original Pieces of His Composition : the Whole Exhibiting a View of Literature and ..., Volume 3 The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: Comprehending an Account of His Studies and Works, in Chronological Order : a Series of His Epistolary Correspondence, Conversations with Many Eminent Persons, and Original Pieces of His Composition : the Whole Exhibiting a View of Literature and Literary Men in Great Britain, for Near Half a Century During which He Flourished, Edmond Malone Volume 3 of The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D, James Boswell |
| Author | James Boswell |
| Illustrated by | Edmond Malone |
| Publisher | Talboys and Wheeler, 1826 |
| Original from | Lyon Public Library |
| Digitized | 21 Sep 2010 |
| Length | 1854 pages |
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