The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D., Volume 2Macmillan, 1912 |
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... eminent in the literary world , and the materials which he had collected for the remainder had been transferred to another hand . He observed , that all works which describe manners , require notes in sixty or seventy years , or less ...
... eminent in the literary world , and the materials which he had collected for the remainder had been transferred to another hand . He observed , that all works which describe manners , require notes in sixty or seventy years , or less ...
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... eminent public character being mentioned ; -JOHN- son : " I remember being present when he shewed himself to be so corrupted , or at least something so different from what I think right , as to maintain , that a member of Parliament ...
... eminent public character being mentioned ; -JOHN- son : " I remember being present when he shewed himself to be so corrupted , or at least something so different from what I think right , as to maintain , that a member of Parliament ...
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... eminent Grecian . JOHN- son : " I am not sure of that . His friends give him out as such , but I know not who of his friends are able to judge of it . " GOLDSMITH : GOLDSMITH : " He is what is much better : he is a worthy humane man ...
... eminent Grecian . JOHN- son : " I am not sure of that . His friends give him out as such , but I know not who of his friends are able to judge of it . " GOLDSMITH : GOLDSMITH : " He is what is much better : he is a worthy humane man ...
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... eminent persons should , for the time to come , be erected in St. Paul's Church as well as in Westminster Abbey , was mentioned ; and it was asked , who should be honoured by having his monument first erected there . Somebody suggested ...
... eminent persons should , for the time to come , be erected in St. Paul's Church as well as in Westminster Abbey , was mentioned ; and it was asked , who should be honoured by having his monument first erected there . Somebody suggested ...
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... eminent a man . Mr. Chambers did not by any means relish this jocularity upon a matter of which pars magna fuit , and seemed im- patient till he got rid of us . Johnson could not stop his merriment , but continued it all the way till he ...
... eminent a man . Mr. Chambers did not by any means relish this jocularity upon a matter of which pars magna fuit , and seemed im- patient till he got rid of us . Johnson could not stop his merriment , but continued it all the way till he ...
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