Boswell's Life of Johnson: Including Boswell's Journal of a Tour of the Hebrides, and Johnson's Diary of A Journey Into North Wales, Volume 5Harper, 1891 |
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... Isle of Sky . Armidale . September 3. Colonel Montgomery , now Earl of Eglintoune . September 4. Ancient Highland Enthusiasm . September 5 . Sir James Macdonald's epitaph and last letters to Contents . 7 his mother . Dr. Johnson's Latin ...
... Isle of Sky . Armidale . September 3. Colonel Montgomery , now Earl of Eglintoune . September 4. Ancient Highland Enthusiasm . September 5 . Sir James Macdonald's epitaph and last letters to Contents . 7 his mother . Dr. Johnson's Latin ...
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... Isle of Sky . Isaac Hawkins Browne . September 6. Corrichatachin . Highland hospitality and mirth . Dr. Johnson's Latin ode to Mrs. Thrale . September 7. Uneasy state of dependence on the weather . State of those who live in the country ...
... Isle of Sky . Isaac Hawkins Browne . September 6. Corrichatachin . Highland hospitality and mirth . Dr. Johnson's Latin ode to Mrs. Thrale . September 7. Uneasy state of dependence on the weather . State of those who live in the country ...
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... Isle of Sky . His .good - humoured gaiety with a Highland lady . September 28. Ancient Irish pride of family . of labour . Dr. Johnson on threshing and thatching . Dangerous to increase the price . Arrive at Ostig . Dr. M'Pherson's ...
... Isle of Sky . His .good - humoured gaiety with a Highland lady . September 28. Ancient Irish pride of family . of labour . Dr. Johnson on threshing and thatching . Dangerous to increase the price . Arrive at Ostig . Dr. M'Pherson's ...
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... isle of Sky3 . I shall then insert my letter , with letters from his lordship , both to myself and Mr. Johnson . I beg it may be understood , that I insert my own letters , as I re- late my own sayings , rather as keys to what is ...
... isle of Sky3 . I shall then insert my letter , with letters from his lordship , both to myself and Mr. Johnson . I beg it may be understood , that I insert my own letters , as I re- late my own sayings , rather as keys to what is ...
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... isles be glad thereof . ' Psalms , xcvii . 1 . 3 A brief memoir of Mr. Carre is given in Forbes's Life of Beattie , Appendix Z. It was his daughter who gave the name to the new street in which Hume had taken a house by chalking on his ...
... isles be glad thereof . ' Psalms , xcvii . 1 . 3 A brief memoir of Mr. Carre is given in Forbes's Life of Beattie , Appendix Z. It was his daughter who gave the name to the new street in which Hume had taken a house by chalking on his ...
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