Dr. Johnson & Mr. BoswellCoward-McCann, 1929 - 265 pages |
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Page 58
... Bute from the right hand of King George and who , as Lord Mayor of London , defended the colonists and refused to lend horses to the king's heralds who were to proclaim the colonists traitors . He was , in many respects , more [ 58 ] ...
... Bute from the right hand of King George and who , as Lord Mayor of London , defended the colonists and refused to lend horses to the king's heralds who were to proclaim the colonists traitors . He was , in many respects , more [ 58 ] ...
Page 72
... Lord Bute , prime minister , out of office and made himself the spe- cific object of a general warrant issued for his arrest . In 1763 , Lady Mary Wortley Montagu , dead but a year , had her personality projected through the posthumous ...
... Lord Bute , prime minister , out of office and made himself the spe- cific object of a general warrant issued for his arrest . In 1763 , Lady Mary Wortley Montagu , dead but a year , had her personality projected through the posthumous ...
Page 73
... Lord Bute , was writing the volumes of a History of England . The follow- ing year , Gibbon , at Rome , was to conceive the plan of writing the History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire , the first volume of which was to ...
... Lord Bute , was writing the volumes of a History of England . The follow- ing year , Gibbon , at Rome , was to conceive the plan of writing the History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire , the first volume of which was to ...
Contents
courtships and amoursCorsica and Paolireturn to England | 27 |
Boswells social service to JohnsonJohnson as comic char | 77 |
BarettiLangton BeauclerkThraleJohnson as father of | 127 |
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