The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.P.F. Collier and Son, 1901 |
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... perhaps worse , when the conversation is with difficulty kept up , by a perpetual effort ? : Johnson once observed to me , " Tom Tyers described me the best : ' Sir , ' said he , ' you are like a ghost : you never speak till you are ...
... perhaps worse , when the conversation is with difficulty kept up , by a perpetual effort ? : Johnson once observed to me , " Tom Tyers described me the best : ' Sir , ' said he , ' you are like a ghost : you never speak till you are ...
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... perhaps any chancellor ever did , or ever will do . But , I believe , causes have been as judiciously decided as you could have done . " JOHNSON . " Yes , Sir . Property has been as well settled . " Johnson , however , had a noble ...
... perhaps any chancellor ever did , or ever will do . But , I believe , causes have been as judiciously decided as you could have done . " JOHNSON . " Yes , Sir . Property has been as well settled . " Johnson , however , had a noble ...
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... perhaps more amusing , talents . I told him , that one morning , when I went to breakfast with Garrick , who was very vain of his intimacy with Lord Camden , he accosted me thus : " Pray now , did you - did you meet a little lawyer ...
... perhaps more amusing , talents . I told him , that one morning , when I went to breakfast with Garrick , who was very vain of his intimacy with Lord Camden , he accosted me thus : " Pray now , did you - did you meet a little lawyer ...
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... - ively of a sentence passed six months before . Perhaps this may be accounted for by Horne Tooke's having obtained a writ of error , and so suspended the execution of the sen tence - 0 . asked you and your lady to live at my house.
... - ively of a sentence passed six months before . Perhaps this may be accounted for by Horne Tooke's having obtained a writ of error , and so suspended the execution of the sen tence - 0 . asked you and your lady to live at my house.
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... perhaps as readily as formerly . My memory is less faithful in retaining names , and , I am afraid , in retaining occurrences . Of this vacillation and vagrancy of mind , I impute a great part to a fortuitous and unsettled life , and ...
... perhaps as readily as formerly . My memory is less faithful in retaining names , and , I am afraid , in retaining occurrences . Of this vacillation and vagrancy of mind , I impute a great part to a fortuitous and unsettled life , and ...
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