Mr. Oddity, Samuel Johnson, LL.D.Bell Publishing Company, 1951 - 348 pages |
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Page 121
Charles Norman. is no reason why that should be done by me , which every other man may do with equal reason , and which , indeed no man can do properly , without some very particular relation both to the Archbishop and to you . " The ...
Charles Norman. is no reason why that should be done by me , which every other man may do with equal reason , and which , indeed no man can do properly , without some very particular relation both to the Archbishop and to you . " The ...
Page 122
... reason , and in confession , that the reason cannot be found . " There was no answer . But one held on to what one had . He could only hope that in cleaving to the religion of his fathers there lay some sort of safety . That is why he ...
... reason , and in confession , that the reason cannot be found . " There was no answer . But one held on to what one had . He could only hope that in cleaving to the religion of his fathers there lay some sort of safety . That is why he ...
Page 207
... reason that he had written to Dr. Swynfen in Latin --because a foreign language made it easier for him to broach a subject " deeply interesting and of great delicacy , " even if allowance be made , in the former case , for Johnson's ...
... reason that he had written to Dr. Swynfen in Latin --because a foreign language made it easier for him to broach a subject " deeply interesting and of great delicacy , " even if allowance be made , in the former case , for Johnson's ...
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