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So in literary children , an authour may fixed upon you , whose fund of literature will en- give the profits and fame of his composition to able you to assist them , with very little interrup- another man , but cannot make that other ...
So in literary children , an authour may fixed upon you , whose fund of literature will en- give the profits and fame of his composition to able you to assist them , with very little interrup- another man , but cannot make that other ...
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I at this time kept up a very frequent cor- and an authour . JOHNSON . " Pretty well , Sir , respondence with Sir David ; and I read to Dr. for one man . As to his being an authour . I have Johnson to - night the following passage from ...
I at this time kept up a very frequent cor- and an authour . JOHNSON . " Pretty well , Sir , respondence with Sir David ; and I read to Dr. for one man . As to his being an authour . I have Johnson to - night the following passage from ...
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At this time Sir Joshua himself had re- complete a Dictionary of words peculiar to Scotceived no information concerning the authour , land , of which I shewed him a specimen . “ Sir , except being assured by one of our most emi- ( said ...
At this time Sir Joshua himself had re- complete a Dictionary of words peculiar to Scotceived no information concerning the authour , land , of which I shewed him a specimen . “ Sir , except being assured by one of our most emi- ( said ...
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| Title | Life of SAMUEL JOHNSON LL.D |
| Author | JAMES BOSWELL |
| Published | 1952 |
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