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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... best judge of its truth . I need not tell you I mean General Paoli ; who , after his great , though unsuccessful , efforts to preserve the liberties of his country , has found an honourable afylum in Britain , where he has now lived ...
... best judge of its truth . I need not tell you I mean General Paoli ; who , after his great , though unsuccessful , efforts to preserve the liberties of his country , has found an honourable afylum in Britain , where he has now lived ...
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... best judge , from internal evidence , whether the numerous converfations which form the most valuable part of the enfuing pages , are correctly related . To them therefore I wish to appeal , for the accu- racy of the portrait here ...
... best judge , from internal evidence , whether the numerous converfations which form the most valuable part of the enfuing pages , are correctly related . To them therefore I wish to appeal , for the accu- racy of the portrait here ...
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... best Hiffory of England for her fon to read . My friend recommended Hume's . But , upon recollecting that its ufher was a fuperlative panegyrick on one , who endeavoured to fap the credit of our holy reli- gion , he repented . I am ...
... best Hiffory of England for her fon to read . My friend recommended Hume's . But , upon recollecting that its ufher was a fuperlative panegyrick on one , who endeavoured to fap the credit of our holy reli- gion , he repented . I am ...
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... best , and that , That cannot be faid now , after the flagrant part which Mr. John Wesley took against our American bretheren , when , in his own name , he threw amongst his enthusiastick flock , the very individual combustibles of Dr ...
... best , and that , That cannot be faid now , after the flagrant part which Mr. John Wesley took against our American bretheren , when , in his own name , he threw amongst his enthusiastick flock , the very individual combustibles of Dr ...
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... best days . He was quite in his element . All was literature and taste , without any interruption , Lord Hailes , who is one of the best philologists in Great Britain , who has written papers in the World , and a variety of other works ...
... best days . He was quite in his element . All was literature and taste , without any interruption , Lord Hailes , who is one of the best philologists in Great Britain , who has written papers in the World , and a variety of other works ...
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