Boswell's Life of Johnson: Including Boswell's Journal of a Tour of the Hebrides, and Johnson's Diary of A Journey Into North Wales, Volume 5Bigelow, Brown & Company, Incorporated, 1786 |
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... Sir Walter Scott fell into the same error . ' The light foot of Mordaunt was not long of bearing him to Jarlok [ Jarlshof ] . ' Pirate , ch . viii . CROKER . Beattie was Professor of Moral Philosophy and Logic in Marischal College ...
... Sir Walter Scott fell into the same error . ' The light foot of Mordaunt was not long of bearing him to Jarlok [ Jarlshof ] . ' Pirate , ch . viii . CROKER . Beattie was Professor of Moral Philosophy and Logic in Marischal College ...
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... Sir Walter Scott in Guy Man- nering ; and in Counsellor Pleydell's library , with its collection of books , and the prospect from the window , we have probably an accu- rate picture of the room in which Hume spent his studious hours ...
... Sir Walter Scott in Guy Man- nering ; and in Counsellor Pleydell's library , with its collection of books , and the prospect from the window , we have probably an accu- rate picture of the room in which Hume spent his studious hours ...
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... Scott came to breakfast , at which I introduced to Dr. Johnson and him , my friend Sir William Forbes , now of Pit ... Walter Scott was two years old this day . He was born in a house at the head of the College Wynd . When Johnson and ...
... Scott came to breakfast , at which I introduced to Dr. Johnson and him , my friend Sir William Forbes , now of Pit ... Walter Scott was two years old this day . He was born in a house at the head of the College Wynd . When Johnson and ...
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... Sir , I know not any crime so great that a man could contrive to commit , as poisoning the sources of eternal truth ... Walter Scott , a lad of fifteen , saw Burns shed tears over a print by Bunbury of a soldier lying dead on the snow .
... Sir , I know not any crime so great that a man could contrive to commit , as poisoning the sources of eternal truth ... Walter Scott , a lad of fifteen , saw Burns shed tears over a print by Bunbury of a soldier lying dead on the snow .
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... Sir Walter Scott wrote of him : - ' He was a man of scrupulous integrity . When sheriff depute of Perthshire , he found upon reflection , that he had decided a poor man's case erroneously ; and as the only remedy , supplied the litigant ...
... Sir Walter Scott wrote of him : - ' He was a man of scrupulous integrity . When sheriff depute of Perthshire , he found upon reflection , that he had decided a poor man's case erroneously ; and as the only remedy , supplied the litigant ...
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