The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.Macmillan, 1912 |
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Page 39
... Italy . I'll go to Padua . - And I'll mind my business . For an Athenian blockhead is the worst of all blockheads . " 1 Dr. Adams told me that Johnson , while he was at Pembroke College , " was caressed and loved by all about him , was ...
... Italy . I'll go to Padua . - And I'll mind my business . For an Athenian blockhead is the worst of all blockheads . " 1 Dr. Adams told me that Johnson , while he was at Pembroke College , " was caressed and loved by all about him , was ...
Page 66
... Italian , together with Le Courayer's Notes from the French , could not fail of a favourable reception . " If it be answered , that the History is already in English , it must be remembered , that there was the same objection against Le ...
... Italian , together with Le Courayer's Notes from the French , could not fail of a favourable reception . " If it be answered , that the History is already in English , it must be remembered , that there was the same objection against Le ...
Page 74
... Italian , I do not know ; but he was so well skilled in them , as to be sufficiently qualified for a translator . That part of his labour which consisted in emendation and improvement of the productions of other contributors , like that ...
... Italian , I do not know ; but he was so well skilled in them , as to be sufficiently qualified for a translator . That part of his labour which consisted in emendation and improvement of the productions of other contributors , like that ...
Page 89
... Italian of Father Paul Sarpi ; with the Author's Life , and Notes theological , historical , and critical , from the French edition of Dr. Le Courayer . To which are added , Observations on the History , and Notes and Illustrations from ...
... Italian of Father Paul Sarpi ; with the Author's Life , and Notes theological , historical , and critical , from the French edition of Dr. Le Courayer . To which are added , Observations on the History , and Notes and Illustrations from ...
Page 107
... Italian : -nothing in it is well . " I had no notion of having any thing for the inscription . I hope you don't think I kept it to extort a price . I could think of nothing till to - day . If you could spare me another guinea for the ...
... Italian : -nothing in it is well . " I had no notion of having any thing for the inscription . I hope you don't think I kept it to extort a price . I could think of nothing till to - day . If you could spare me another guinea for the ...
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