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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... answer to his Lordship - Excursion to Oxford -Receives his Degree of M.A. - Projected " Bib- liothèque " - Letters , Remarks , & c . , relating to the Dictionary - Garrick's Panegyric - Johnson's Pamphlet on the Longitude - Scheme of ...
... answer to his Lordship - Excursion to Oxford -Receives his Degree of M.A. - Projected " Bib- liothèque " - Letters , Remarks , & c . , relating to the Dictionary - Garrick's Panegyric - Johnson's Pamphlet on the Longitude - Scheme of ...
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... Answer , containing Advice for Study - Visit to the Langton Family , in Lincolnshire - Institution of the Lite- rary Club - Miscellaneous Writings - Various Pecu liarities of Johnson - Visit to Cambridge - Diploma of LL.D. from Trinity ...
... Answer , containing Advice for Study - Visit to the Langton Family , in Lincolnshire - Institution of the Lite- rary Club - Miscellaneous Writings - Various Pecu liarities of Johnson - Visit to Cambridge - Diploma of LL.D. from Trinity ...
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... answer it , he would beat him , without considering whether he had an opportunity of knowing how to answer it . For instance , he would call up a boy and ask him Latin for a candlestick , which the boy could not expect to be asked . Now ...
... answer it , he would beat him , without considering whether he had an opportunity of knowing how to answer it . For instance , he would call up a boy and ask him Latin for a candlestick , which the boy could not expect to be asked . Now ...
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... answered , ' Yes , sir , but she is sick in bed . ' ' Oh , ' says he , if it's so , tell her that her son Jervis ... answer , left him . Mrs. Johnson , en- raptured to hear her son was below , desired the maid to tell him she longed ...
... answered , ' Yes , sir , but she is sick in bed . ' ' Oh , ' says he , if it's so , tell her that her son Jervis ... answer , left him . Mrs. Johnson , en- raptured to hear her son was below , desired the maid to tell him she longed ...
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... answered , that the history is already in English , it must be rembered , that there was the same objection against Le ... answer , if you are not willing to engage in this scheme ; and appoint me a day to wait upon you , if I am , Sir ...
... answered , that the history is already in English , it must be rembered , that there was the same objection against Le ... answer , if you are not willing to engage in this scheme ; and appoint me a day to wait upon you , if I am , Sir ...
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