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... Reverend THOMAS WARTON , aud the Reverend Dr. ADAMS , Mr. WARTON , amidst his variety of genius and learning , was an excellent Biographer . His contributions to my Collection are highly estimable ; and as he had a true relish of my ...
... Reverend THOMAS WARTON , aud the Reverend Dr. ADAMS , Mr. WARTON , amidst his variety of genius and learning , was an excellent Biographer . His contributions to my Collection are highly estimable ; and as he had a true relish of my ...
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... Auchinleck . An honourable and reverend friend speaking of the favourable reception of my volumes , even in the circles of fashion and elegance , said to me , " you have made them all talk Johnson . " - Yes , xxxvi ADVERTISEMENT.
... Auchinleck . An honourable and reverend friend speaking of the favourable reception of my volumes , even in the circles of fashion and elegance , said to me , " you have made them all talk Johnson . " - Yes , xxxvi ADVERTISEMENT.
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... Reverend Doctor VYSE , Rector of Lambeth . Those written by Dr. JOHNSON concerning his mother in her last illness , furnish a new proof of his great piety and tenderness of heart , and therefore cannot but be acceptable to the readers ...
... Reverend Doctor VYSE , Rector of Lambeth . Those written by Dr. JOHNSON concerning his mother in her last illness , furnish a new proof of his great piety and tenderness of heart , and therefore cannot but be acceptable to the readers ...
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... Reverend Dr. Adams , who afterwards presided over Pem- broke College with universal esteem , told me he was present , and gave me some account of what passed on the night of Johnson's arrival at Oxford . On that evening , his father ...
... Reverend Dr. Adams , who afterwards presided over Pem- broke College with universal esteem , told me he was present , and gave me some account of what passed on the night of Johnson's arrival at Oxford . On that evening , his father ...
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... Reverend William Adams , D.D. , who was then very young , and one of the junior fellows ; that the mild but judicious expostulations of this worthy man , whose virtue awed him , and whose learning he revered , made him really ashamed of ...
... Reverend William Adams , D.D. , who was then very young , and one of the junior fellows ; that the mild but judicious expostulations of this worthy man , whose virtue awed him , and whose learning he revered , made him really ashamed of ...
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