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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... language , have had no ability . I have long wished that the Irish literature were cultivated 5. Ire- land is known ... language , and the other for the study of Irish antiquities and Irish history , and for the study of any other ...
... language , have had no ability . I have long wished that the Irish literature were cultivated 5. Ire- land is known ... language , and the other for the study of Irish antiquities and Irish history , and for the study of any other ...
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... language is established , he is wrong . My name might originally have been Nicholson , as well as Johnson ; but were you to call me Nicholson now , you would call me very absurdly . ' Rousseau's treatise on the inequality of mankind 3 ...
... language is established , he is wrong . My name might originally have been Nicholson , as well as Johnson ; but were you to call me Nicholson now , you would call me very absurdly . ' Rousseau's treatise on the inequality of mankind 3 ...
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... Language , 1757. ( There was a French translation in 1758. ) 2. A compendious Dictionary of the French Language chiefly designed to teach the pronunciation of it ( Dodsley ) , 1764 . 3. The History of the English Language , 1771 . 4 ...
... Language , 1757. ( There was a French translation in 1758. ) 2. A compendious Dictionary of the French Language chiefly designed to teach the pronunciation of it ( Dodsley ) , 1764 . 3. The History of the English Language , 1771 . 4 ...
Contents
DR HILLS DEDICATION TO JOWETT | xxix |
TITLEPAGE OF THE THIRD EDITION | xlvii |
Advertisement to the Life | 23 |
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