The Life of Samuel JohnsonOlms, 1973 - 639 pages |
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Page ix
... Anderson - Percy correspondence as a whole that they had discussed Johnson before . Nor were Percy's annotations in Anderson's interleaved copy of his second edition the Bishop's first manuscript comments on a biography of Johnson ...
... Anderson - Percy correspondence as a whole that they had discussed Johnson before . Nor were Percy's annotations in Anderson's interleaved copy of his second edition the Bishop's first manuscript comments on a biography of Johnson ...
Page xviii
... Anderson's medical training ( he had an Edinburgh M. D. , but never appears to have practiced medicine ) qualifies ... Anderson shows that he is trying to construct an ac- count combining intellectual history , in the modern . sense ...
... Anderson's medical training ( he had an Edinburgh M. D. , but never appears to have practiced medicine ) qualifies ... Anderson shows that he is trying to construct an ac- count combining intellectual history , in the modern . sense ...
Page xxvi
Robert Anderson. first strong corroboration . The first of these , which Boswell had rejected , is the dedication to John Lind- say's Evangelical History ( 1757 ) .20 Anderson had dis- covered the authenticity of this work in 1806 , and ...
Robert Anderson. first strong corroboration . The first of these , which Boswell had rejected , is the dedication to John Lind- say's Evangelical History ( 1757 ) .20 Anderson had dis- covered the authenticity of this work in 1806 , and ...
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