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, Volume 3C. Ewer & T. Bedlington, 1824 |
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... Scotch physicians is now prosecuting a corporation that in some publick instrument have styled him Doctor of Medicine instead of Physician . Boswell desires , being advocate for the corporation , to know whether Doctor of Medicine is ...
... Scotch physicians is now prosecuting a corporation that in some publick instrument have styled him Doctor of Medicine instead of Physician . Boswell desires , being advocate for the corporation , to know whether Doctor of Medicine is ...
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... Scotch conspiracy in na- tional falsehood . " Do not censure the expression ; you know it to be true . " Dr. Memis ' question is so narrow as to allow no speculation ; and I have no facts before me but those which his advocate has ...
... Scotch conspiracy in na- tional falsehood . " Do not censure the expression ; you know it to be true . " Dr. Memis ' question is so narrow as to allow no speculation ; and I have no facts before me but those which his advocate has ...
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... Scotch ; for , if he had been conscious of that , he never would have thrown himself into the bosom of their coun- try , and trusted to the protection of its remote inhabi- tants with a fearless confidence . His remark upon the ...
... Scotch ; for , if he had been conscious of that , he never would have thrown himself into the bosom of their coun- try , and trusted to the protection of its remote inhabi- tants with a fearless confidence . His remark upon the ...
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... Scotch , and their resentment at having their country described by him as it really was ; when , to say that it was a coun- try as good as England , would have been a gross false- hood . " None of us ( said he ) would be offended if a ...
... Scotch , and their resentment at having their country described by him as it really was ; when , to say that it was a coun- try as good as England , would have been a gross false- hood . " None of us ( said he ) would be offended if a ...
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... Scotch- man shall be as an Englishman to me . His intimacy with many gentlemen of Scotland , and his employing so many natives of that country as his amanuensis , prove that his prejudice was not virulent ; and I have deposit- ed in the ...
... Scotch- man shall be as an Englishman to me . His intimacy with many gentlemen of Scotland , and his employing so many natives of that country as his amanuensis , prove that his prejudice was not virulent ; and I have deposit- ed in the ...
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