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... hope for the countenance of that venerable gentleman to this work , will appear from what he wrote to me upon a former occasion from Oxford , November 17 , 1785 : - " Dear sir , I hazard this letter , not knowing where it will find you ...
... hope for the countenance of that venerable gentleman to this work , will appear from what he wrote to me upon a former occasion from Oxford , November 17 , 1785 : - " Dear sir , I hazard this letter , not knowing where it will find you ...
Page xxiii
... hope to see in about a fortnight . Ib . p . 208. In the letter to Mr. Chambers , the last two paragraphs but one are transposed . Ib . p . 209. 1. 14. I have not been able yet to procure . Ib . p . 211. 1. 16. I shall be extremely glad ...
... hope to see in about a fortnight . Ib . p . 208. In the letter to Mr. Chambers , the last two paragraphs but one are transposed . Ib . p . 209. 1. 14. I have not been able yet to procure . Ib . p . 211. 1. 16. I shall be extremely glad ...
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... hope for impartiality , but must expect little intelligence ; for the in- cidents which give excellence to biography are of a vola- tile and evanescent kind , such as soon escape the memory , and are rarely transmitted by tradition . We ...
... hope for impartiality , but must expect little intelligence ; for the in- cidents which give excellence to biography are of a vola- tile and evanescent kind , such as soon escape the memory , and are rarely transmitted by tradition . We ...
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... hope . " This is so beautifully imagined , that I would not suppress it . But , like many other theories , it is deduced from a supposed fact , which is , indeed , a fiction * . BOSWELL . * Johnson always evinced mortification at his ...
... hope . " This is so beautifully imagined , that I would not suppress it . But , like many other theories , it is deduced from a supposed fact , which is , indeed , a fiction * . BOSWELL . * Johnson always evinced mortification at his ...
Page 45
... hope for out of my father's effects , previous to the death of my mother ; an event which , I pray God may be very remote . I now , therefore , see that I must make my own fortune . Meanwhile , let me take care that the powers of my ...
... hope for out of my father's effects , previous to the death of my mother ; an event which , I pray God may be very remote . I now , therefore , see that I must make my own fortune . Meanwhile , let me take care that the powers of my ...
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