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... published on May 16th , 1791 , in two volumes quarto . A supplementary volume was added in 1794 , followed almost immediately by a second edition in three volumes octavo , in which , however , the fresh materials , instead of being ...
... published on May 16th , 1791 , in two volumes quarto . A supplementary volume was added in 1794 , followed almost immediately by a second edition in three volumes octavo , in which , however , the fresh materials , instead of being ...
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... published under his own supervision , with some fresh additions of letters and notes distinguished as before from Boswell's own work . From this text the present edition has been printed . It would be tedious to enumerate all the ...
... published under his own supervision , with some fresh additions of letters and notes distinguished as before from Boswell's own work . From this text the present edition has been printed . It would be tedious to enumerate all the ...
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... published in 1854 at Sydney , was first made known in this country by an article in The Edinburgh Review , written in 1859 at the instance of , and partly from materials supplied by , Macaulay . The manuscript had been discovered in one ...
... published in 1854 at Sydney , was first made known in this country by an article in The Edinburgh Review , written in 1859 at the instance of , and partly from materials supplied by , Macaulay . The manuscript had been discovered in one ...
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... 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 , Esq . Quò fit ut OMNIS Votiva pateat veluti descripta tabella VITA SENIS ...
... 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 , Esq . Quò fit ut OMNIS Votiva pateat veluti descripta tabella VITA SENIS ...
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... published , the most voluminous of which is one compiled for the booksellers of London , by Sir John Hawkins , Knight , ' a man , whom , during my long intimacy with Dr. Johnson , I never saw in his company , I think , but once , and I ...
... published , the most voluminous of which is one compiled for the booksellers of London , by Sir John Hawkins , Knight , ' a man , whom , during my long intimacy with Dr. Johnson , I never saw in his company , I think , but once , and I ...
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