Mr. Oddity, Samuel Johnson, LL.D.Bell Publishing Company, 1951 - 348 pages |
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... Lichfield , in Staffordshire , a cathedral city 118 miles northwest of London . Michael Johnson was a zealous high - churchman and royalist , with more love for the old house of Stuart than for the new one of Hanover . He served his ...
... Lichfield , in Staffordshire , a cathedral city 118 miles northwest of London . Michael Johnson was a zealous high - churchman and royalist , with more love for the old house of Stuart than for the new one of Hanover . He served his ...
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... Lichfield and its en- virons . Of these early friends perhaps the most important was Gilbert Walmsley , the registrar of the ecclesiastical court of Lichfield , a middle - aged bachelor who had known the wits of London and whose talk ...
... Lichfield and its en- virons . Of these early friends perhaps the most important was Gilbert Walmsley , the registrar of the ecclesiastical court of Lichfield , a middle - aged bachelor who had known the wits of London and whose talk ...
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... Lichfield as an officer in the British army . Johnson afterwards saw the Herveys in London . He was also welcome at the house of a Mr. Meynell . A say- ing of Mr. Meynell's on foreigners suited or helped to form his own prejudice ...
... Lichfield as an officer in the British army . Johnson afterwards saw the Herveys in London . He was also welcome at the house of a Mr. Meynell . A say- ing of Mr. Meynell's on foreigners suited or helped to form his own prejudice ...
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