The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.Macmillan, 1912 |
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... mentioned post . The Autobiography was printed by Croker in an Appendix : the correspondence by Napier in the supplementary volume to his edition entitled Johnsoniana . JOHNSON'S PARENTS II engaging unsuccessfully in a manufacture of ...
... mentioned post . The Autobiography was printed by Croker in an Appendix : the correspondence by Napier in the supplementary volume to his edition entitled Johnsoniana . JOHNSON'S PARENTS II engaging unsuccessfully in a manufacture of ...
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... mentioned it as one of the most memorable events of his life , that " he was very near having that great man for his scholar . " He remained at Stourbridge little more than a year , and then he returned home , where he may be said to ...
... mentioned it as one of the most memorable events of his life , that " he was very near having that great man for his scholar . " He remained at Stourbridge little more than a year , and then he returned home , where he may be said to ...
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... mention one curious instance of his casual reading , when but a boy . Having imagined that his brother had hid some ... mentioned , in some preface , as one of the restorers of learning . His curiosity having been thus excited , he sat ...
... mention one curious instance of his casual reading , when but a boy . Having imagined that his brother had hid some ... mentioned , in some preface , as one of the restorers of learning . His curiosity having been thus excited , he sat ...
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... mentioned the early impressions made upon his tender imagination by his mother , who continued her pious cares with assiduity , but , in his opinion , not with judgment . Sunday , " said he , " was a heavy day with me when I was a boy ...
... mentioned the early impressions made upon his tender imagination by his mother , who continued her pious cares with assiduity , but , in his opinion , not with judgment . Sunday , " said he , " was a heavy day with me when I was a boy ...
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... mentioned . But I have heard him say , what ought to be recorded to the honour of the present venerable master of that College , the Reverend William Adams , D.D. , who was then very young , and one of the junior fellows ; that the mild ...
... mentioned . But I have heard him say , what ought to be recorded to the honour of the present venerable master of that College , the Reverend William Adams , D.D. , who was then very young , and one of the junior fellows ; that the mild ...
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