Mr. Oddity, Samuel Johnson, LL.D.Bell Publishing Company, 1951 - 348 pages |
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Page 51
... received by , the Honorable Henry Hervey . Hervey , he recollected , was " very kind " to him . There could not have been much in common between a provincial scholar and a soldier and man of the world whom Johnson himself de- scribed as ...
... received by , the Honorable Henry Hervey . Hervey , he recollected , was " very kind " to him . There could not have been much in common between a provincial scholar and a soldier and man of the world whom Johnson himself de- scribed as ...
Page 71
... received the startling reply : " Psalma- nazar . " George Psalmanazar , the fake Formosan , who spoke Eng- lish with a city accent and whom Johnson supposed was really a Gascon , had taught the Formosan language ( which he made up ) to ...
... received the startling reply : " Psalma- nazar . " George Psalmanazar , the fake Formosan , who spoke Eng- lish with a city accent and whom Johnson supposed was really a Gascon , had taught the Formosan language ( which he made up ) to ...
Page 316
... received from you so rough a letter in reply to one which was both tenderly and respectfully writ- ten , that I am forced to desire the conclusion of a correspond- ence which I can bear to continue no longer . The birth of my second ...
... received from you so rough a letter in reply to one which was both tenderly and respectfully writ- ten , that I am forced to desire the conclusion of a correspond- ence which I can bear to continue no longer . The birth of my second ...
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