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 1Bigelow, Brown & Company, Incorporated, 1799 |
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... honoured ' . That reception has excited my best exer- tions to render my Book more perfect ; and in this endeavour I ... honour to the press of Mr. Henry Baldwin , now Master of the Worship- ful Company of Stationers , whom I have long ...
... honoured ' . That reception has excited my best exer- tions to render my Book more perfect ; and in this endeavour I ... honour to the press of Mr. Henry Baldwin , now Master of the Worship- ful Company of Stationers , whom I have long ...
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... honour from corruption , ' But such an honest chronicler as Griffith ' . ' SHAKSPEARE , Henry VIII . [ Act IV . Sc . 2. ] ' See Dr. Johnson's letter to Mrs. Thrale , dated Ostick in Skie , Sep- tember 30 , 1773 : — ' Boswell writes a ...
... honour from corruption , ' But such an honest chronicler as Griffith ' . ' SHAKSPEARE , Henry VIII . [ Act IV . Sc . 2. ] ' See Dr. Johnson's letter to Mrs. Thrale , dated Ostick in Skie , Sep- tember 30 , 1773 : — ' Boswell writes a ...
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... honour to make himself but a pair of tables , to take the wise and pithy words of others , than to have every word of his own to be made an apothegm or an oracle ' . ' Having said thus much by way of introduction , I commit the ...
... honour to make himself but a pair of tables , to take the wise and pithy words of others , than to have every word of his own to be made an apothegm or an oracle ' . ' Having said thus much by way of introduction , I commit the ...
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... honour thee for this thy duty ' . ' This passage is quoted from Boswell's Hebrides , Aug. 24 , 1773 . Mr. Boyd had told Johnson that Lady Errol did not use force or fear in educating her children ; whereupon he replied , Sir , she is ...
... honour thee for this thy duty ' . ' This passage is quoted from Boswell's Hebrides , Aug. 24 , 1773 . Mr. Boyd had told Johnson that Lady Errol did not use force or fear in educating her children ; whereupon he replied , Sir , she is ...
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... honour to human nature . Talking to me once himself of his being much distinguished at school , he told me , ' they never thought to raise me by comparing me to any one ; they never said , Johnson is as good a scholar as such a one ...
... honour to human nature . Talking to me once himself of his being much distinguished at school , he told me , ' they never thought to raise me by comparing me to any one ; they never said , Johnson is as good a scholar as such a one ...
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