Boswell's Life of Johnson, Together with Boswell's Journal of a Tour of the Hebride and Johnson's Diary of a Journey Into North Wales, Volume 1Clarendon Press, 1934 - 556 pages |
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... English translation on the opposite page . The English title- page is this : " An Account of an Attempt to ascertain the Longitude at Sea , by an exact Variation of the Magnetical Needle , & c . By Zachariah Williams . London , printed ...
... English translation on the opposite page . The English title- page is this : " An Account of an Attempt to ascertain the Longitude at Sea , by an exact Variation of the Magnetical Needle , & c . By Zachariah Williams . London , printed ...
Page 439
... English ; the structure of his sentences is French 2. Now the French structure and the English structure may , in the nature of things , be equally good . But if you allow that the English language is established , he is wrong . My name ...
... English ; the structure of his sentences is French 2. Now the French structure and the English structure may , in the nature of things , be equally good . But if you allow that the English language is established , he is wrong . My name ...
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... English ; the English part was certainly touched by Johnson , but was not , I think , wholly by him , as James Crossley affirmed ( Notes & Queries , I Ser . v . 101 ) . The opening paragraph of The Italian Library is , as Mr. R. W. Chap ...
... English ; the English part was certainly touched by Johnson , but was not , I think , wholly by him , as James Crossley affirmed ( Notes & Queries , I Ser . v . 101 ) . The opening paragraph of The Italian Library is , as Mr. R. W. Chap ...
Contents
DR HILLS DEDICATION TO JOWETT | xxix |
TITLEPAGE OF THE THIRD EDITION | xlvii |
Advertisement to the Life | 23 |
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