Mr. Oddity, Samuel Johnson, LL.D.Bell Publishing Company, 1951 - 348 pages |
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... englISH LANGUAGE : In Which the Words Are Deduced From Their Originals , and Illustrated in their Different Significations by Examples from the best Writers . To which are prefixed A History of the Language , and An English Grammar . By ...
... englISH LANGUAGE : In Which the Words Are Deduced From Their Originals , and Illustrated in their Different Significations by Examples from the best Writers . To which are prefixed A History of the Language , and An English Grammar . By ...
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... English clergy were not " the most respectable . " With a frown- ing look , Johnson exclaimed : " This is a day of novelties : I have seen old trees in Scotland , and I've heard the English clergy treated with disrespect . " He ...
... English clergy were not " the most respectable . " With a frown- ing look , Johnson exclaimed : " This is a day of novelties : I have seen old trees in Scotland , and I've heard the English clergy treated with disrespect . " He ...
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... English clergy . The Rev. Mr. Macaulay had disparaged the lower ranks ; the Rev. Mr. Dun deprecated " fat bishops and drowsy deans . " " Sir , " said Johnson , " you know no more of our church than a Hottentot . " The clouds were ...
... English clergy . The Rev. Mr. Macaulay had disparaged the lower ranks ; the Rev. Mr. Dun deprecated " fat bishops and drowsy deans . " " Sir , " said Johnson , " you know no more of our church than a Hottentot . " The clouds were ...
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