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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... received any assistance whatever from that gentleman . He , however , went to Oxford , and was entered a commoner of Pembroke College , on the 31st of October , 1728 , being then in his nineteenth The Reverend Dr. Adams , who afterwards ...
... received any assistance whatever from that gentleman . He , however , went to Oxford , and was entered a commoner of Pembroke College , on the 31st of October , 1728 , being then in his nineteenth The Reverend Dr. Adams , who afterwards ...
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... received twenty pounds , being all that I have reason to hope for out of my father's effects , previous to the death of my mother ; an event which I pray God may be very remote . I now , therefore , see that I must make my own fortune ...
... received twenty pounds , being all that I have reason to hope for out of my father's effects , previous to the death of my mother ; an event which I pray God may be very remote . I now , therefore , see that I must make my own fortune ...
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... received from the fathers of Ethiopia , with an account that Sultan Segned , Emperor of Abyssinia , was converted to the church of Rome ; that many of his subjects had followed his example , and that there was a great want of ...
... received from the fathers of Ethiopia , with an account that Sultan Segned , Emperor of Abyssinia , was converted to the church of Rome ; that many of his subjects had followed his example , and that there was a great want of ...
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... received from himself an account of most of the transactions which he proposes to mention , to the time of his retirement to Swansea , in Wales . " From that period , to his death in the prison of Bristol , the account will be continued ...
... received from himself an account of most of the transactions which he proposes to mention , to the time of his retirement to Swansea , in Wales . " From that period , to his death in the prison of Bristol , the account will be continued ...
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... received such information and remarks , as , joined to my own inquiries , will , I think , render it at least somewhat doubtful , espe- cially when we consider that it must have ori- ginated from the person himself who went by the name ...
... received such information and remarks , as , joined to my own inquiries , will , I think , render it at least somewhat doubtful , espe- cially when we consider that it must have ori- ginated from the person himself who went by the name ...
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