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Your excellence not only in the art over which you have long presided with unrivalled fame , but also in philosophy and elegant literature , is well known to the present , and will continue to be the admiration of future ages .
Your excellence not only in the art over which you have long presided with unrivalled fame , but also in philosophy and elegant literature , is well known to the present , and will continue to be the admiration of future ages .
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In the strangely mixed scenes of human existence , our feelings are often at once pleasing and painful . Of this truth , the progress of the present work furnishes a striking instance . It was highly gratifying to me that ...
In the strangely mixed scenes of human existence , our feelings are often at once pleasing and painful . Of this truth , the progress of the present work furnishes a striking instance . It was highly gratifying to me that ...
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Observations on the Present State of Affairs ; intern . evid . Memoirs of Frederick the Third , king of Prussia ; intern . evid . War- In the same Magazine his reviews are of the following books : Birch's History of the Royal Society .
Observations on the Present State of Affairs ; intern . evid . Memoirs of Frederick the Third , king of Prussia ; intern . evid . War- In the same Magazine his reviews are of the following books : Birch's History of the Royal Society .
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Gemelli was himself present at this ceremony , and says the words used were , " Le Roi te touche , Dieu te guérisse . " Every Frenchman received fifteen sous , and every foreigner thirty , after being touched : to some of the supposed ...
Gemelli was himself present at this ceremony , and says the words used were , " Le Roi te touche , Dieu te guérisse . " Every Frenchman received fifteen sous , and every foreigner thirty , after being touched : to some of the supposed ...
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The reverend Dr. Adams , who afterwards presided over Pembroke college with universal esteem , told me he was present , and gave me some account of what passed on the night of Johnson's arrival at Oxford . On that evening , his father ...
The reverend Dr. Adams , who afterwards presided over Pembroke college with universal esteem , told me he was present , and gave me some account of what passed on the night of Johnson's arrival at Oxford . On that evening , his father ...
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| Title | The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. Oxford English classics Volume 1 of The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D, James Boswell |
| Author | James Boswell |
| Publisher | Talboys & Wheeler, 1826 |
| Original from | Lyon Public Library |
| Digitized | 20 Sep 2010 |
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