The life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: comprising a series of his epistolary correspondence and conversations with many eminent persons ...Routledge, 1867 - 526 pages |
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... Boswell sups with them at the Mitre - Record of Conversation - Nightly Tea with Miss Williams - Boswell not yet admitted to this Privilege - Subsequent Interviews with Johnson , and Record of Conversations on these Occasions 101 - 115 ...
... Boswell sups with them at the Mitre - Record of Conversation - Nightly Tea with Miss Williams - Boswell not yet admitted to this Privilege - Subsequent Interviews with Johnson , and Record of Conversations on these Occasions 101 - 115 ...
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... Boswell. PAGE CHAP . XXVIII . 1776. - Boswell again visits London -Bolt Court - Law of Entails - Adam Smith's " Wealth of Nations " -Lawyers and Lawsuits- Scotch Militia Bill- " Johnsoniana " -Excursion to Oxford with Boswell - Advice to ...
... Boswell. PAGE CHAP . XXVIII . 1776. - Boswell again visits London -Bolt Court - Law of Entails - Adam Smith's " Wealth of Nations " -Lawyers and Lawsuits- Scotch Militia Bill- " Johnsoniana " -Excursion to Oxford with Boswell - Advice to ...
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... Boswell - Dr . Blair's Sermon - Addison - East In- dians - Lord Kaimes's Sketches - Madame Lapou chin - Molly Aston ... Boswell's Departure for Scotland - Correspon . dence - Thomson's Sister - Visit to Warley Canip- Mr. Langton - Dr ...
... Boswell - Dr . Blair's Sermon - Addison - East In- dians - Lord Kaimes's Sketches - Madame Lapou chin - Molly Aston ... Boswell's Departure for Scotland - Correspon . dence - Thomson's Sister - Visit to Warley Canip- Mr. Langton - Dr ...
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... Boswell. foibles had been a little more shaded ; but it is useful to see the weaknesses incident to great minds and you have given us Dr. Johnson's authority that in history all ought to be told . " Such a sanction to my faculty of ...
... Boswell. foibles had been a little more shaded ; but it is useful to see the weaknesses incident to great minds and you have given us Dr. Johnson's authority that in history all ought to be told . " Such a sanction to my faculty of ...
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... BOSWELL .. + A London bookseller of the time . - BOSWELL . Not the Royal Society ; but the Society for the En- couragement of Learning , of which Dr. Birch was a leading member . Their object was to assist authors in printing expensive ...
... BOSWELL .. + A London bookseller of the time . - BOSWELL . Not the Royal Society ; but the Society for the En- couragement of Learning , of which Dr. Birch was a leading member . Their object was to assist authors in printing expensive ...
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