The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.P.F. Collier and Son, 1901 |
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... night his drawing - room , very genteelly fitted up , and said , “ Mrs. Thrale sneered , when I talked of my having 1 Mr. Horne Tooke , who had been in the preceding July convicted of a seditious libel . The sentence - pronounced in ...
... night his drawing - room , very genteelly fitted up , and said , “ Mrs. Thrale sneered , when I talked of my having 1 Mr. Horne Tooke , who had been in the preceding July convicted of a seditious libel . The sentence - pronounced in ...
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... nights have been commonly , not only restless , but painful and fatiguing . My respiration was once so difficult , that an asthma was suspected . I could not walk , but with great difficulty , from Stowhill to Greenhill . Some ...
... nights have been commonly , not only restless , but painful and fatiguing . My respiration was once so difficult , that an asthma was suspected . I could not walk , but with great difficulty , from Stowhill to Greenhill . Some ...
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... night . I would know night , as well as morning and noon . " JOHN- SON . " What , Sir , would you know what it is to feel the evils of old age ? Would you have the gout ? Would you have decrepi- tude ? " Seeing him heated , I would not ...
... night . I would know night , as well as morning and noon . " JOHN- SON . " What , Sir , would you know what it is to feel the evils of old age ? Would you have the gout ? Would you have decrepi- tude ? " Seeing him heated , I would not ...
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... night as to the influence of character upon success in life . She said he was certainly wrong ; and told me that a baronet lost an election in Wales because he had debauched the sister of a gentleman in the county , whom he made one of ...
... night as to the influence of character upon success in life . She said he was certainly wrong ; and told me that a baronet lost an election in Wales because he had debauched the sister of a gentleman in the county , whom he made one of ...
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... night , as late as at eleven o'clock , he accompanied the major of the regiment in going what are styled the rounds , where he might observe the forms of visiting the guards , for the seeing that they and their sentries are ready in ...
... night , as late as at eleven o'clock , he accompanied the major of the regiment in going what are styled the rounds , where he might observe the forms of visiting the guards , for the seeing that they and their sentries are ready in ...
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