The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D., Volume 1Dent, 1949 |
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... Pembroke College , told me , I was the best qualified for the University that he had ever known come there . " In ... Pembroke College , on the 31st of October , 1728 , being then in his nineteenth year . The Reverend Dr. Adams ...
... Pembroke College , told me , I was the best qualified for the University that he had ever known come there . " In ... Pembroke College , on the 31st of October , 1728 , being then in his nineteenth year . The Reverend Dr. Adams ...
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... Pembroke College was that upon the second floor over the gateway . The enthusiast of learning will ever contemplate it with veneration . One day , while he was sitting in it quite alone , Dr. Panting , then master of the College , whom ...
... Pembroke College was that upon the second floor over the gateway . The enthusiast of learning will ever contemplate it with veneration . One day , while he was sitting in it quite alone , Dr. Panting , then master of the College , whom ...
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... Pembroke College , which he retained to the last . A short time before his death he sent to that College , a present of all his works , to be deposited in their library ; and he had thoughts of leaving to it his house at Lichfield ; but ...
... Pembroke College , which he retained to the last . A short time before his death he sent to that College , a present of all his works , to be deposited in their library ; and he had thoughts of leaving to it his house at Lichfield ; but ...
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