Mr. Oddity, Samuel Johnson, LL.D.Bell Publishing Company, 1951 - 348 pages |
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Page 260
... Italy was put off for another year , a great disappointment to Johnson . He said : " A man who has not been in Italy , is always conscious of an inferiority , from his not having seen what it is expected a man should see . The grand ...
... Italy was put off for another year , a great disappointment to Johnson . He said : " A man who has not been in Italy , is always conscious of an inferiority , from his not having seen what it is expected a man should see . The grand ...
Page 312
... Italy . As for the means to do so , it was decided the best scheme would be to apply to the government for a grant . To Boswell fell the agreeable assignment of setting the plan in motion , and he wrote to Lord Thurlow , the Lord ...
... Italy . As for the means to do so , it was decided the best scheme would be to apply to the government for a grant . To Boswell fell the agreeable assignment of setting the plan in motion , and he wrote to Lord Thurlow , the Lord ...
Page 318
... Italy . " I am afraid , however , that my counsel is vain , yet I have eased my heart by giving it . " When Queen Mary took the resolution of sheltering her- self in England , the Archbishop of St. Andrew's , attempting to dissuade her ...
... Italy . " I am afraid , however , that my counsel is vain , yet I have eased my heart by giving it . " When Queen Mary took the resolution of sheltering her- self in England , the Archbishop of St. Andrew's , attempting to dissuade her ...
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