The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides: With Samuel Johnson, LL.D. By James Boswell, ...Henry Baldwin, 1785 - 524 pages |
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... reason in roafting of eggs . " -When Mr. Wilkes , in his days of tumultuous opposition , was born upon the shoulders of the mob , Mr. Burke ( as Mr. ling to begin to talk , nor in a hafte Wilkes [ 25 ] and for wit of all kinds too; not ...
... reason in roafting of eggs . " -When Mr. Wilkes , in his days of tumultuous opposition , was born upon the shoulders of the mob , Mr. Burke ( as Mr. ling to begin to talk , nor in a hafte Wilkes [ 25 ] and for wit of all kinds too; not ...
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... reason of many other things . " - Dr . Cullen , to keep up the gra- tification of myfterious difquifition , with the grave addrefs for which he is remarkable in his companionable as in his profeffional hours , talked , in a very ...
... reason of many other things . " - Dr . Cullen , to keep up the gra- tification of myfterious difquifition , with the grave addrefs for which he is remarkable in his companionable as in his profeffional hours , talked , in a very ...
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... reason why you fhould pull his house about his ears . " As we walked in the cloisters , there was a folemn echo , while he talked loud of a proper retire ment from the world . Mr. Nairne faid , he had an inclination to retire . I called ...
... reason why you fhould pull his house about his ears . " As we walked in the cloisters , there was a folemn echo , while he talked loud of a proper retire ment from the world . Mr. Nairne faid , he had an inclination to retire . I called ...
Page 113
... reason , and paid them their full fums , principal and interest . They prefented him with a piece of plate , with an inscription to commemorate this extraordinary inftance of true worth ; which should make fome people in Scotland blush ...
... reason , and paid them their full fums , principal and interest . They prefented him with a piece of plate , with an inscription to commemorate this extraordinary inftance of true worth ; which should make fome people in Scotland blush ...
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... reason is , that people do not write them till fome time after , and then their imagination has added circum- ftances . " We talked of Sir Adolphus Oughton . The Major faid , he knew a great deal for a military man . - Johnfon . " Sir ...
... reason is , that people do not write them till fome time after , and then their imagination has added circum- ftances . " We talked of Sir Adolphus Oughton . The Major faid , he knew a great deal for a military man . - Johnfon . " Sir ...
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