The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.P.F. Collier and Son, 1901 |
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... honours of the state . Sir William Scott informs me , that upon the death of the late Lord Lichfield , who was chancellor of the University of Oxford , he said to Johnson , " What a pity it is , Sir , that you did not follow the ...
... honours of the state . Sir William Scott informs me , that upon the death of the late Lord Lichfield , who was chancellor of the University of Oxford , he said to Johnson , " What a pity it is , Sir , that you did not follow the ...
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... honours of the tea - table . I observed that he would not even look at a proof - sheet of his " Life of Waller " on Good - Friday . Mr. Allen , the printer , brought a book on agriculture , which was printed and was soon to be published ...
... honours of the tea - table . I observed that he would not even look at a proof - sheet of his " Life of Waller " on Good - Friday . Mr. Allen , the printer , brought a book on agriculture , which was printed and was soon to be published ...
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... honour in France , who being asked by the queen what o'clock it was , an- swered , " What your majesty pleases . " He admitted that Mr. Burke's classical pun upon Mr. Wilkes's being carried on the shoul- ders of the mob , - " numerisque ...
... honour in France , who being asked by the queen what o'clock it was , an- swered , " What your majesty pleases . " He admitted that Mr. Burke's classical pun upon Mr. Wilkes's being carried on the shoul- ders of the mob , - " numerisque ...
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... honour to pay me a visit at my house in the country ; I am overjoyed at seeing him ; we are quite by ourselves shall I unsociably and churlishly let him sit drinking by himself ? No , no , my dear Sir Joshua , you shall not be treated ...
... honour to pay me a visit at my house in the country ; I am overjoyed at seeing him ; we are quite by ourselves shall I unsociably and churlishly let him sit drinking by himself ? No , no , my dear Sir Joshua , you shall not be treated ...
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... honour of being known to his lordship , and applied to him of myself , without being commissioned by John- His lordship behaved in the most polite and obliging manner , promised to tell all he recollected about Pope , and was so very ...
... honour of being known to his lordship , and applied to him of myself , without being commissioned by John- His lordship behaved in the most polite and obliging manner , promised to tell all he recollected about Pope , and was so very ...
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