The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Comprehending an Account of His Studies and Numerous Works, in Chronological Order : a Series of His Epistolary Correspondence and Conversations with Many Eminent Persons : and Various Original Pieces of His Composition, Never Before Published : the Whole Exhibiting a View of Literature and Literary Men in Great-Britain, for Near Half a Century, During which He Flourished : in Three Volumes ...Henry Baldwin, 1793 |
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... once occurred ; As if he meant to reprimand my minute exactness as a creditor , he thus addreffed me , " Bofwell , lend me fixpence not to be repaid . " This great man's attention to fmall things was very remarkable . As an inftance of ...
... once occurred ; As if he meant to reprimand my minute exactness as a creditor , he thus addreffed me , " Bofwell , lend me fixpence not to be repaid . " This great man's attention to fmall things was very remarkable . As an inftance of ...
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... once an opportunity of entertaining Johnson for a day or two at Wickham , when its Lord was abfent , and by him I have been favoured with two anec- dotes . One is not a little to the credit of Johnson's can- dour . Mr. Morgan and he had ...
... once an opportunity of entertaining Johnson for a day or two at Wickham , when its Lord was abfent , and by him I have been favoured with two anec- dotes . One is not a little to the credit of Johnson's can- dour . Mr. Morgan and he had ...
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... once , at Sir Jofhua Reynolds's , that , a beggar in the street will more readily afk alms from a man , though there should be no marks of wealth in his appearance , than from even a well - dreffed woman ; which he accounted for from ...
... once , at Sir Jofhua Reynolds's , that , a beggar in the street will more readily afk alms from a man , though there should be no marks of wealth in his appearance , than from even a well - dreffed woman ; which he accounted for from ...
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... Once when checking my boafting too fre- quently of myself in company , he faid to me , " Bofwell , you often vaunt fo much as to provoke ridicule . You put me in mind of a man who was ftanding in the kitchen of an inn with his back to ...
... Once when checking my boafting too fre- quently of myself in company , he faid to me , " Bofwell , you often vaunt fo much as to provoke ridicule . You put me in mind of a man who was ftanding in the kitchen of an inn with his back to ...
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... once they were brought to a market in the plantations , little would avail either their dignity or their wrongs . The laws of Jamaica afford a Negro no redress . His colour is confidered as a fufficient teftimony against him . It is to ...
... once they were brought to a market in the plantations , little would avail either their dignity or their wrongs . The laws of Jamaica afford a Negro no redress . His colour is confidered as a fufficient teftimony against him . It is to ...
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