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“ Come home , however , and take your chance . I long to see you , and to hear you ; and hope that we shall not be so long separated again . Come home , and expect such ! 1 welcome as is due to him whom a wise and 2 THE LIFE OF [ 1765 .
“ Come home , however , and take your chance . I long to see you , and to hear you ; and hope that we shall not be so long separated again . Come home , and expect such ! 1 welcome as is due to him whom a wise and 2 THE LIFE OF [ 1765 .
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“ Let us hear it ; we'll put a bad one to it . ” JOHNSON . “ No , sir ; I have forgot it . " Such specimens of the easy and playful conversation of the great Dr. Samuel Johnson are , I think , to be prized ; as exhibiting the little ...
“ Let us hear it ; we'll put a bad one to it . ” JOHNSON . “ No , sir ; I have forgot it . " Such specimens of the easy and playful conversation of the great Dr. Samuel Johnson are , I think , to be prized ; as exhibiting the little ...
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“ The wonder , with most that hear an account of his economy , will be , how he was able , with such an income , to do so much , especially when it is considered that he paid for every thing he had . He had no land , except the two or ...
“ The wonder , with most that hear an account of his economy , will be , how he was able , with such an income , to do so much , especially when it is considered that he paid for every thing he had . He had no land , except the two or ...
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I wrote to him again without being able to move his indolence : nor did I hear from him till he had received a copy of my inaugural Exercise , or Thesis in Civil Law , which I published at my admission as an advocate , as is the custom ...
I wrote to him again without being able to move his indolence : nor did I hear from him till he had received a copy of my inaugural Exercise , or Thesis in Civil Law , which I published at my admission as an advocate , as is the custom ...
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“ SIR , I did not expect to hear that it could be , in an assembly convened for the propagation of christian knowledge , a question whether any nation uninstructed in religion should receive instruction ; or whether that instruction ...
“ SIR , I did not expect to hear that it could be , in an assembly convened for the propagation of christian knowledge , a question whether any nation uninstructed in religion should receive instruction ; or whether that instruction ...
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| Title | The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. Oxford English classics Volume 2 of The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D, James Boswell |
| Author | James Boswell |
| Publisher | Talboys & Wheeler, 1826 |
| Original from | the University of California |
| Digitized | 5 Jun 2018 |
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