The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D., Volume 1Talboys and Wheeler, 1826 |
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... kind appro- bation . Dr. Adams , eminent as the head of a college , as a writer , and as a most amiable man , had known Johnson from his early years , and was his friend through life . What reason I had to hope for the countenance of ...
... kind appro- bation . Dr. Adams , eminent as the head of a college , as a writer , and as a most amiable man , had known Johnson from his early years , and was his friend through life . What reason I had to hope for the countenance of ...
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... kind of writing . Since my work was announced , several lives and me- moirs of Dr. Johnson have been published ; the most volu- minous of which is one compiled for the booksellers of London , by sir John Hawkins , knight " , a man whom ...
... kind of writing . Since my work was announced , several lives and me- moirs of Dr. Johnson have been published ; the most volu- minous of which is one compiled for the booksellers of London , by sir John Hawkins , knight " , a man whom ...
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... kind are enabled , as it were , to see him live , and to “ live o'er each scene " with him , as he actually advanced through c Brit . Mus . 4320. Ayscough's Catal . Sloane MSS . the several stages of his life . Had his other 4 THE LIFE OF.
... kind are enabled , as it were , to see him live , and to “ live o'er each scene " with him , as he actually advanced through c Brit . Mus . 4320. Ayscough's Catal . Sloane MSS . the several stages of his life . Had his other 4 THE LIFE OF.
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... give excellence to biography are of a vola- tile and evanescent kind , such as soon escape the memory , and are rarely transmitted by tradition . We know how 1 few can portray a living acquaintance , except by his DR . JOHNSON .
... give excellence to biography are of a vola- tile and evanescent kind , such as soon escape the memory , and are rarely transmitted by tradition . We know how 1 few can portray a living acquaintance , except by his DR . JOHNSON .
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... kind which the benevolent Saxon monarch performed . A piece of gold was given to all those who were touched , which may partially exculpate the poorer part of our ancestors from the imputation of implicit credulity . Fabian Phillips ...
... kind which the benevolent Saxon monarch performed . A piece of gold was given to all those who were touched , which may partially exculpate the poorer part of our ancestors from the imputation of implicit credulity . Fabian Phillips ...
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