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... laid down by an Irish painter he had known in Birmingham , he practised the art of living in a garret at eighteenpence a week ; and here , too , according to Murphy , he composed for the Gentleman's Magazine that vi INTRODUCTION.
... laid down by an Irish painter he had known in Birmingham , he practised the art of living in a garret at eighteenpence a week ; and here , too , according to Murphy , he composed for the Gentleman's Magazine that vi INTRODUCTION.
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James Boswell Arnold Glover, Austin Dobson. to Murphy , he composed for the Gentleman's Magazine that speech of Pitt , which enthusiasts compared to the masterpieces of Demosthenes . How long he lived in Exeter Street , or whether he ...
James Boswell Arnold Glover, Austin Dobson. to Murphy , he composed for the Gentleman's Magazine that speech of Pitt , which enthusiasts compared to the masterpieces of Demosthenes . How long he lived in Exeter Street , or whether he ...
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... gentleman from Ireland " concerning the cause of some part of mankind being black . " The Irish gentleman grew so " warm and intemperate in his expressions " that Johnson rose and walked away . Whereupon INTRODUCTION xxi.
... gentleman from Ireland " concerning the cause of some part of mankind being black . " The Irish gentleman grew so " warm and intemperate in his expressions " that Johnson rose and walked away . Whereupon INTRODUCTION xxi.
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... Gentleman's Magazine , was doubtless used by many of Cave's journeymen ; and it enjoyed besides the minor honour of serving as a house of call to prisoners bound Newgate- wards . But the chief hostelries which now remain to be noted in ...
... Gentleman's Magazine , was doubtless used by many of Cave's journeymen ; and it enjoyed besides the minor honour of serving as a house of call to prisoners bound Newgate- wards . But the chief hostelries which now remain to be noted in ...
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... Gentleman , a circumstance of which an ignorant panegyrist has praised him for not being proud ; when the truth is , that the appellation of Gentleman , though now lost in the indiscriminate assumption of Esquire , was commonly taken by ...
... Gentleman , a circumstance of which an ignorant panegyrist has praised him for not being proud ; when the truth is , that the appellation of Gentleman , though now lost in the indiscriminate assumption of Esquire , was commonly taken by ...
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