The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Together with The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides, Volume 5Bell, 1889 |
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... Land on Icolmkill . 20. Sketch of the ruins at Icolmkill - Influence of solemn scenes of piety - Feudal authority in the extreme- Return to Mull . 21. Pulteney - Pitt - Walpole - Mr . Wilkes - English and 283 287 291 22 . 23 . Jewish ...
... Land on Icolmkill . 20. Sketch of the ruins at Icolmkill - Influence of solemn scenes of piety - Feudal authority in the extreme- Return to Mull . 21. Pulteney - Pitt - Walpole - Mr . Wilkes - English and 283 287 291 22 . 23 . Jewish ...
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... land . With a new map of the whole , describing the harbours , anchoring places and dangerous rocks , for the benefit of sailers . To which is add a brief description of the isles of Orkney and Schet- land . By M. Martin , Gent . London ...
... land . With a new map of the whole , describing the harbours , anchoring places and dangerous rocks , for the benefit of sailers . To which is add a brief description of the isles of Orkney and Schet- land . By M. Martin , Gent . London ...
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... land ? Or change the rocks of Scotland for the Strand ? There none are swept by sudden fate away ; But all , whom hunger spares , with age decay . " The truth is , like the ancient Greeks and Romans , he allowed himself to look upon all ...
... land ? Or change the rocks of Scotland for the Strand ? There none are swept by sudden fate away ; But all , whom hunger spares , with age decay . " The truth is , like the ancient Greeks and Romans , he allowed himself to look upon all ...
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... land . I , at first , thought the appellation very inappropriate , and that Unlucky would have been better , for Dr. Johnson had a mind to have thrown the waiter , as well as the lemonade , out of the window . " -Croker . In a 2 The ...
... land . I , at first , thought the appellation very inappropriate , and that Unlucky would have been better , for Dr. Johnson had a mind to have thrown the waiter , as well as the lemonade , out of the window . " -Croker . In a 2 The ...
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... land tax from the rest of his property . It was lately occupied by a printer . - Chambers . the doctrine of prescription in the civil law , which λτο . 14. ] 11 TO THE HEBRIDES . Introduction-Character of Dr Johnson-He arrives in Scotland.
... land tax from the rest of his property . It was lately occupied by a printer . - Chambers . the doctrine of prescription in the civil law , which λτο . 14. ] 11 TO THE HEBRIDES . Introduction-Character of Dr Johnson-He arrives in Scotland.
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