The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D., Volume 2Macmillan, 1912 |
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... favoured him , for I read more deliberately than usual . I had proceeded but a very little way , when he begged I would desist , for he could not follow me . " Hearing now for the first time of this preface or dedica- tion , I said ...
... favoured him , for I read more deliberately than usual . I had proceeded but a very little way , when he begged I would desist , for he could not follow me . " Hearing now for the first time of this preface or dedica- tion , I said ...
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... favour of Mr. Douglas : of whose legitimate filia- tion I was then , and am still , firmly convinced . Let me add , that no fact can be more respectably ascertained , than by the judgment of the most august tribunal in the world ; a ...
... favour of Mr. Douglas : of whose legitimate filia- tion I was then , and am still , firmly convinced . Let me add , that no fact can be more respectably ascertained , than by the judgment of the most august tribunal in the world ; a ...
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... favour him , have nursed up in their bosoms principles of hatred and reasons of rejection . Anger is excited principally by pride . The pride of a common man is very little exasperated by the supposed usurpation of an acknowledged ...
... favour him , have nursed up in their bosoms principles of hatred and reasons of rejection . Anger is excited principally by pride . The pride of a common man is very little exasperated by the supposed usurpation of an acknowledged ...
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... favour of him . If you could , it would highly oblige me . ' " Dr. Blair requests you may be assured that he did not write to London what you said to him , and that neither by word nor letter has he made the least complaint of you ; but ...
... favour of him . If you could , it would highly oblige me . ' " Dr. Blair requests you may be assured that he did not write to London what you said to him , and that neither by word nor letter has he made the least complaint of you ; but ...
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... favour me with an English translation . It will be doubly kind if you comply with my request speedily . " Your critical notes on the specimen of Lord Hailes's Annals of Scotland , ' are excellent . I agreed with you on every one of them ...
... favour me with an English translation . It will be doubly kind if you comply with my request speedily . " Your critical notes on the specimen of Lord Hailes's Annals of Scotland , ' are excellent . I agreed with you on every one of them ...
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