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Every Frenchman received fifteen sous , and every foreigner thirty , after being touched : to some of the supposed patients the king said , Are you sick too ? For other curious particulars on this interesting subject , see Barrington on ...
Every Frenchman received fifteen sous , and every foreigner thirty , after being touched : to some of the supposed patients the king said , Are you sick too ? For other curious particulars on this interesting subject , see Barrington on ...
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... in the other , I learned much from the master , but little in the school . " The bishop also informs me , that " Dr. Johnson's father , before he was received at Stourbridge , applied to have him admitted as a scholar and assistant ...
... in the other , I learned much from the master , but little in the school . " The bishop also informs me , that " Dr. Johnson's father , before he was received at Stourbridge , applied to have him admitted as a scholar and assistant ...
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... he never received any assist- ance whatever from that gentleman . He , however , went to Oxford , and was entered a com- moner of Pembroke college , on the thirty - first of Octo- ber , 1728 , being then in his nineteenth year .
... he never received any assist- ance whatever from that gentleman . He , however , went to Oxford , and was entered a com- moner of Pembroke college , on the thirty - first of Octo- ber , 1728 , being then in his nineteenth year .
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I layed by eleven guineas on this day , when I received twenty pounds , being all that I have rea- son to hope for out of my father's effects , previous to the death of my mother ; an event which , I pray God may be very remote .
I layed by eleven guineas on this day , when I received twenty pounds , being all that I have rea- son to hope for out of my father's effects , previous to the death of my mother ; an event which , I pray God may be very remote .
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He was of an advanced age , and I was only not a boy ; yet he never received my notions with contempt . He was a whig , with all the virulence and malevolence of his party ; yet difference of opinion did not keep us apart .
He was of an advanced age , and I was only not a boy ; yet he never received my notions with contempt . He was a whig , with all the virulence and malevolence of his party ; yet difference of opinion did not keep us apart .
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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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