Life of SAMUEL JOHNSON LL.D1952 |
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Page 41
... believe I am going to write a long let- ter , and have therefore taken a whole sheet of paper . The first thing to be written about is our historical design . You mentioned the proposal of printing in numbers , as an alteration in the ...
... believe I am going to write a long let- ter , and have therefore taken a whole sheet of paper . The first thing to be written about is our historical design . You mentioned the proposal of printing in numbers , as an alteration in the ...
Page 242
... believe , no Erse manuscripts . None of the old families had a single letter in Erse that we heard of . You say it is likely that they could write . The learned , if any learned there were , could ; but knowing by that learning , some ...
... believe , no Erse manuscripts . None of the old families had a single letter in Erse that we heard of . You say it is likely that they could write . The learned , if any learned there were , could ; but knowing by that learning , some ...
Page 473
... believe , as sincere as wounded affection and admiration could produce , had this day , for the first time since his death , a select party of his friends to dine with her . The company was Miss Hannah More , who lived with her , and ...
... believe , as sincere as wounded affection and admiration could produce , had this day , for the first time since his death , a select party of his friends to dine with her . The company was Miss Hannah More , who lived with her , and ...
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