Boswell's Life of Johnson: Including Boswell's Journal of a Tour of the Hebrides, and Johnson's Diary of A Journey Into North Wales, Volume 5Harper, 1891 |
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Page 9
... Duke of Ormond . Col's cabi- net . Letters of the great Montrose . Present state of the isl- and of Col. October 9. Dr. Johnson's avidity for a variety of books . Improbabil- ity of a Highland tradition . Dr. Johnson's delicacy of ...
... Duke of Ormond . Col's cabi- net . Letters of the great Montrose . Present state of the isl- and of Col. October 9. Dr. Johnson's avidity for a variety of books . Improbabil- ity of a Highland tradition . Dr. Johnson's delicacy of ...
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... Duke of Argyle . Arrive at Inverary . Dr. John- son drinks some whiskey , and assigns his reason . Letter from the author to Mr. Garrick . Mr. Garrick's answer . October 24. Specimen of Ogden on Prayer . Hervey's Meditations . Dr ...
... Duke of Argyle . Arrive at Inverary . Dr. John- son drinks some whiskey , and assigns his reason . Letter from the author to Mr. Garrick . Mr. Garrick's answer . October 24. Specimen of Ogden on Prayer . Hervey's Meditations . Dr ...
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... Duke of Argyle . Gran- deur of his grace's seat . The authour possesses himself in an embarrassing situation . Honourable Archibald Campbell on a middle state . The old Lord Townshend . Question con- cerning luxury . Nice trait of ...
... Duke of Argyle . Gran- deur of his grace's seat . The authour possesses himself in an embarrassing situation . Honourable Archibald Campbell on a middle state . The old Lord Townshend . Question con- cerning luxury . Nice trait of ...
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... Duke of Hamilton , as Keeper , in which our beautiful Queen Mary lived , and in which David Rizzio was murdered ; and also the State Rooms . Dr. Johnson was a great reciter of all sorts of things serious or comical . I overheard him ...
... Duke of Hamilton , as Keeper , in which our beautiful Queen Mary lived , and in which David Rizzio was murdered ; and also the State Rooms . Dr. Johnson was a great reciter of all sorts of things serious or comical . I overheard him ...
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... Duke was at home . But , not having the honour of being much known to his grace , I could not have pre- sumed to enter his castle , though to introduce even so celebrated a stranger . We were at any rate in a hurry to get forward to the ...
... Duke was at home . But , not having the honour of being much known to his grace , I could not have pre- sumed to enter his castle , though to introduce even so celebrated a stranger . We were at any rate in a hurry to get forward to the ...
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