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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... 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 , November 17 , 1785 " Dear Sir , I hazard this letter not knowing where it will ...
... 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 , November 17 , 1785 " Dear Sir , I hazard this letter not knowing where it will ...
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... reason ; and that the Creator doth not appear view , and have found that here , as I believe in partial in his distributions , but has balanced , in every other translation , there is in the work itself most countries , their particular ...
... reason ; and that the Creator doth not appear view , and have found that here , as I believe in partial in his distributions , but has balanced , in every other translation , there is in the work itself most countries , their particular ...
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... reason the marriage ceremony was not performed at Birmingham ; but a resolution was taken that it should be at Derby , for which place the bride and bridegroom set out on horseback , I suppose in very good humour . But though Mr. Topham ...
... reason the marriage ceremony was not performed at Birmingham ; but a resolution was taken that it should be at Derby , for which place the bride and bridegroom set out on horseback , I suppose in very good humour . But though Mr. Topham ...
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... reasons . - BOSWELL . A translation of this Ode , by an unknown corre- spondent , appeared in the Magazine for the ... reason to complain of the petulance with which obscure scribblers have presumed to treat men of the most respectable ...
... reasons . - BOSWELL . A translation of this Ode , by an unknown corre- spondent , appeared in the Magazine for the ... reason to complain of the petulance with which obscure scribblers have presumed to treat men of the most respectable ...
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... reason , I believe , to doubt the veracity of Cave . It is , however , remarkable that none of these letters are in the years during which Johnson alone furnished the debates , and one of them is in the very year after he ceased from ...
... reason , I believe , to doubt the veracity of Cave . It is , however , remarkable that none of these letters are in the years during which Johnson alone furnished the debates , and one of them is in the very year after he ceased from ...
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