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... Hector , surgeon , of Birmingham , if she was not vain of. 1 It was not , however , much cultivated , as we may collect from Dr. John- son's own account of his early years , published by R. Phillips , 8vo . 1805 , a work undoubtedly ...
... Hector , surgeon , of Birmingham , if she was not vain of. 1 It was not , however , much cultivated , as we may collect from Dr. John- son's own account of his early years , published by R. Phillips , 8vo . 1805 , a work undoubtedly ...
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... Hector informed me , acted. q " I was , by my father's persuasion , put to one Marclew , commonly called Bellison , the servant or wife of a servant of my father , to be nursed , in George- lane . Here it was discovered that my eyes were ...
... Hector informed me , acted. q " I was , by my father's persuasion , put to one Marclew , commonly called Bellison , the servant or wife of a servant of my father , to be nursed , in George- lane . Here it was discovered that my eyes were ...
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James Boswell. Johnson indeed , as Mr. Hector informed me , acted by the advice of the celebrated sir John Floyer , then a physician in Lichfield . Johnson used to talk of this very frankly ; and Mrs. Piozzi has preserved his very ...
James Boswell. Johnson indeed , as Mr. Hector informed me , acted by the advice of the celebrated sir John Floyer , then a physician in Lichfield . Johnson used to talk of this very frankly ; and Mrs. Piozzi has preserved his very ...
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... Hector , surgeon , in Birmingham , whose name will so constantly be repeated in these memoirs . Among other eminent men , Addison , Wollaston , Garrick , and bishop Newton , were educated at this school . There were , at one period ...
... Hector , surgeon , in Birmingham , whose name will so constantly be repeated in these memoirs . Among other eminent men , Addison , Wollaston , Garrick , and bishop Newton , were educated at this school . There were , at one period ...
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... Hector , has obligingly furnished me with many. * Johnson's observations to Dr. Rose , on this subject , may be found in a subsequent part of this work . See vol . ii . near the end of the year 1775 . BURNEY . y More than a little . The ...
... Hector , has obligingly furnished me with many. * Johnson's observations to Dr. Rose , on this subject , may be found in a subsequent part of this work . See vol . ii . near the end of the year 1775 . BURNEY . y More than a little . The ...
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