The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.Macmillan, 1912 |
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... hope for the countenance of that venerable gentleman to this Work , will appear from what he wrote to me upon a former occasion from Oxford , November 17 , 1785 : - " Dear Sir , I hazard this letter , not knowing where it will find you ...
... hope for the countenance of that venerable gentleman to this Work , will appear from what he wrote to me upon a former occasion from Oxford , November 17 , 1785 : - " Dear Sir , I hazard this letter , not knowing where it will find you ...
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... hope for impartiality , but must expect little intelligence ; for the incidents which give excellence to biography are of a volatile and evanescent kind , such as soon escape the memory , and are rarely transmitted by tradition . We ...
... hope for impartiality , but must expect little intelligence ; for the incidents which give excellence to biography are of a volatile and evanescent kind , such as soon escape the memory , and are rarely transmitted by tradition . We ...
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... hope . " This is so beautifully imagined , that I would not suppress it . But , like many other theories , it is deduced from a supposed fact , which is , indeed , a fiction . B. HIS DEFECTIVE SIGHT 2 15 that of the other . 14 BOSWELL'S ...
... hope . " This is so beautifully imagined , that I would not suppress it . But , like many other theories , it is deduced from a supposed fact , which is , indeed , a fiction . B. HIS DEFECTIVE SIGHT 2 15 that of the other . 14 BOSWELL'S ...
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... 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 now therefore see that I must make my own fortune . Meanwhile let me take care that the powers of my mind be not ...
... 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 now therefore see that I must make my own fortune . Meanwhile let me take care that the powers of my mind be not ...
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... hope , that at least , my gratitude made me worthy of his notice . " 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 ...
... hope , that at least , my gratitude made me worthy of his notice . " 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 ...
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