The Works of Samuel Johnson: With an Essay on His Life and Genius, Volume 1L. Hansard & sons, 1810 |
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... bookseller in that city ; a man of large athletic make , and violent passions ; wrong - headed , positive , and at times afflicted with a degree of melan- choly , little short of madness . His mother was sister to Dr. Ford , a ...
... bookseller in that city ; a man of large athletic make , and violent passions ; wrong - headed , positive , and at times afflicted with a degree of melan- choly , little short of madness . His mother was sister to Dr. Ford , a ...
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... bookseller . He has been heard to say that he could bind a book . At the end of two years , being then about nineteen , he went to assist the studies of a young gen- tleman , of the name of Corbet , to the Uni versity of Oxford ; and on ...
... bookseller . He has been heard to say that he could bind a book . At the end of two years , being then about nineteen , he went to assist the studies of a young gen- tleman , of the name of Corbet , to the Uni versity of Oxford ; and on ...
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... bookseller . At that place Johnson translated a Voyage to Abyssinia , written by Jerome Lobo , a Portugueze mis- sionary . This was the first literary work from the pen of Dr. Johnson . His friend Hector was occasionally his amanuensis ...
... bookseller . At that place Johnson translated a Voyage to Abyssinia , written by Jerome Lobo , a Portugueze mis- sionary . This was the first literary work from the pen of Dr. Johnson . His friend Hector was occasionally his amanuensis ...
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... bookseller , and was printed at Birmingham ; but it appears in the Lite- rary Magazine , or History of the Works of the Learned , for March , 1735 , that it was published by Bettesworth and Hitch , Pater- noster - row . It contains a ...
... bookseller , and was printed at Birmingham ; but it appears in the Lite- rary Magazine , or History of the Works of the Learned , for March , 1735 , that it was published by Bettesworth and Hitch , Pater- noster - row . It contains a ...
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... booksellers , which has been his only subsistence for some time past . 86 66 66 " I fear there is more difficulty in this " affair than these good - natured gentlemen apprehend , especially as their election can- " not be delayed longer ...
... booksellers , which has been his only subsistence for some time past . 86 66 66 " I fear there is more difficulty in this " affair than these good - natured gentlemen apprehend , especially as their election can- " not be delayed longer ...
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