The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.Macmillan, 1912 |
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... PERSONS ; AND VARIOUS ORIGINAL PIECES OF HIS COMPOSITION NEVER BEFORE PUBLISHED : THE WHOLE EXHIBITING A VIEW OF LITERATURE AND LITERARY MEN IN GREAT BRITAIN , FOR NEAR HALF A CENTURY , DURING WHICH HE FLOURISHED . Br JAMES BOSWELL ...
... PERSONS ; AND VARIOUS ORIGINAL PIECES OF HIS COMPOSITION NEVER BEFORE PUBLISHED : THE WHOLE EXHIBITING A VIEW OF LITERATURE AND LITERARY MEN IN GREAT BRITAIN , FOR NEAR HALF A CENTURY , DURING WHICH HE FLOURISHED . Br JAMES BOSWELL ...
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... person to whom the following Work should be inscribed . If there be a pleasure in celebrating the distinguished merit of a contemporary , mixed with a certain degree of vanity , not altogether inexcusable , in appearing fully sensible ...
... person to whom the following Work should be inscribed . If there be a pleasure in celebrating the distinguished merit of a contemporary , mixed with a certain degree of vanity , not altogether inexcusable , in appearing fully sensible ...
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... the world ; for , though I could scarcely believe it , I have been undoubtedly informed , that many persons , especially in distant quarters , not penetrating ation . enough into Johnson's character , so as to understand his.
... the world ; for , though I could scarcely believe it , I have been undoubtedly informed , that many persons , especially in distant quarters , not penetrating ation . enough into Johnson's character , so as to understand his.
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... persons in all quarters to supply me with additional information concerning its illustrious subject ; resembling in this the grateful tribes of ancient nations , of which every individual was eager to throw a stone upon the grave of a ...
... persons in all quarters to supply me with additional information concerning its illustrious subject ; resembling in this the grateful tribes of ancient nations , of which every individual was eager to throw a stone upon the grave of a ...
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... persons , the world would probably have had the most perfect example of biography that was ever exhibited . But although he at different times , in a desultory manner , committed to writing many particulars of the progress of his mind ...
... persons , the world would probably have had the most perfect example of biography that was ever exhibited . But although he at different times , in a desultory manner , committed to writing many particulars of the progress of his mind ...
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