The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.Talboys & Wheeler, 1826 |
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... received fifteen sous , and every foreigner thirty , after being touched : to some of the supposed patients the king said , Are you sick too ? For other curious particulars on this interesting subject , see Barrington on Ancient ...
... received fifteen sous , and every foreigner thirty , after being touched : to some of the supposed patients the king said , Are you sick too ? For other curious particulars on this interesting subject , see Barrington on Ancient ...
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... received at Stourbridge , applied to have him admitted as a scholar and assistant to the rev . Samuel Lea , M. A. head master of Newport school , in Shropshire ; a very diligent good teacher , at that time in high reputa- tion , under ...
... received at Stourbridge , applied to have him admitted as a scholar and assistant to the rev . Samuel Lea , M. A. head master of Newport school , in Shropshire ; a very diligent good teacher , at that time in high reputa- tion , under ...
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... received any assist- ance whatever from that gentleman . He , however , went to Oxford , and was entered a com- moner of Pembroke college , on the thirty - first of Octo- ber , 1728 , being then in his nineteenth year . The reverend Dr ...
... received any assist- ance whatever from that gentleman . He , however , went to Oxford , and was entered a com- moner of Pembroke college , on the thirty - first of Octo- ber , 1728 , being then in his nineteenth year . The reverend Dr ...
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... received twenty pounds , being all that I have rea- son to 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 ...
... received twenty pounds , being all that I have rea- son to 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 ...
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... received my notions with contempt . He was a whig , with all the virulence and malevolence of his party ; yet difference of opinion did not keep us apart . I ho- noured him , and he endured me . " He had mingled with the gay world ...
... received my notions with contempt . He was a whig , with all the virulence and malevolence of his party ; yet difference of opinion did not keep us apart . I ho- noured him , and he endured me . " He had mingled with the gay world ...
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