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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... One Volume . With Maps and Plans . NAPIER'S PENINSULAR WAR . in One Volume . With Maps and Plans . Vols . I and 2 Vols . 3 and 4 Vols . 5 and 6 KÖNIGL BAYER TULIOTHEKES BIBLI BAN BER PREFACE . wwwwww A WORK so well known as "
... One Volume . With Maps and Plans . NAPIER'S PENINSULAR WAR . in One Volume . With Maps and Plans . Vols . I and 2 Vols . 3 and 4 Vols . 5 and 6 KÖNIGL BAYER TULIOTHEKES BIBLI BAN BER PREFACE . wwwwww A WORK so well known as "
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... known as " Boswell's LIFE OF JOHNSON , " needs no eulogy to those who have read it . Hitherto , however , the book has hardly been brought within reach of the great mass of the lovers of literature ; and it may interest those who make ...
... known as " Boswell's LIFE OF JOHNSON , " needs no eulogy to those who have read it . Hitherto , however , the book has hardly been brought within reach of the great mass of the lovers of literature ; and it may interest those who make ...
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... known to the present , and will continue to be the admiration of future ages . Your equal and placid temper , your variety of conversation , your true politeness , by which you are so amiable in private society , and that enlarged ...
... known to the present , and will continue to be the admiration of future ages . Your equal and placid temper , your variety of conversation , your true politeness , by which you are so amiable in private society , and that enlarged ...
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... known Johnson from his early years , and was his friend through life . What reason I had to hope for the countenance of that venerable gentleman to this work , will appear from what he wrote to me upon a former occasion from Oxford ...
... known Johnson from his early years , and was his friend through life . What reason I had to hope for the countenance of that venerable gentleman to this work , will appear from what he wrote to me upon a former occasion from Oxford ...
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... known from one another but by ex- trinsic and casual circumstances . ' Let me re- member , ' says Hale , when I find myself inclined to pity a criminal , that there is likewise a pity due to the country . ' If we owe regard to the ...
... known from one another but by ex- trinsic and casual circumstances . ' Let me re- member , ' says Hale , when I find myself inclined to pity a criminal , that there is likewise a pity due to the country . ' If we owe regard to the ...
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